It's not just the Eastbound lanes. Twice, a cop who was parked on Sierra Vista Avenue drove across the two Eastbound lanes, into the left turn lane, did a U-turn and came after me in the Westbound lanes! He said, "You didn't see me?????" I'm like, no, I was watching where I was going!----not looking down neighborhood sidestreets 3 lanes South of me to my left! This happened once in 2010 and again in 2014. The woman from the Fresno Traffic Division told me that the 40 miles per hour speed limit has been posted there since 1995 and they do regular 5 year Engineering and Traffic surveys every 5 years. Westbound Shepard at Chestnut has a holding pond for a quarter mile and then a residential area with a fence for the 2nd quarter mile. There are no side streets, driveways or nearby schools which would put pedestrians and other drivers at risk for that half mile. Yet the adjacent street, on Chestnut, is posted at 45, even though there is the Walgreens on the corner, Food4Less, multiple stores in that corner shopping center and then the road narrows to ONE lane in front of the Carl's Jr.! Why, with multiple driveways businesses, and side streets (on the Northbound lanes), is it 45 vs.40 on Westbound Shepard at Chestnut? Someone told me that certain half mile sections all over town are set up to catch speeders, regularly, as a way for the city to make money off fining people. Leslie Parker Barkley, Senior Engineering Technician of the Traffic Engineering Operations Division denies this. She said the speed limit is appropriate for the area, without giving an expanation for why Southbound and Northbound Chestnut at Shepard is higher with much more risk to drivers and pedestrians from multple driveways and businesses.

Leslie Barkley also says that I do not understand the meaning of a "speed trap" and refers me to the California Vehicle Code Section 40802.