I entered the town along hwy 59 heading north. As others have described, the speed limit reduces from 70 to 60, and then to 55. These two reductions occur within two-tenths of a mile from each other, and then the patrolman was sitting less than two-tenths of a mile from the second sign. No time is given to slow down. If you are entering the town you had better slow down well in advance of these signs, or jam on your brakes as soon as you see them.

ALSO, check your ticket thoroughly. The officer originally told me that he stopped me for doing 68 in the 55 zone, but then when he tried to get me to sign the ticket I wanted to read it. He kept pushing me to just sign it, explaining that it’s not an admission of guilt. I get that, but I don’t sign anything without reading it, so I told him I would sign it after I had read it. I’m glad that I did because he had written it for 72 instead of 68, which increases the fine by $60. I challenged this and refused to sign it with 72 on there, reminding the officer that he had told me 68. My wife also chimed in and insisted that he had said 68. I also indicated that he was wearing a body cam, so he knew he was caught in his lie and changed the speed back to 68 after “re-checking his radar.”

This town has a population of around 1800 to 1900 people, and on this day I saw four different patrol cars, two of which were writing speeding tickets, and one of which was clocking traffic on the far end of town as I left. This town is a disgrace to government and law enforcement.