Highway 1 (aka 17)

Grant Park, IllinoisNov 01, 20010 Comments

Grant Park is a village that probably is all of 16 blocks large, probably a population of under 200. The cop sits at the boundary as 1/17 approaches from the west. There is a 45 MPH sign at the usual distance from the city. There is a 35 MPH sign well before the town begins, which is absurd. But the real problem is that this is a trap. I had a radar detctor so I paid careful attention to my speed. The cop still wrote me a ticket for doing 51 in a 35, which I know is completely false. He obviously clocked me before I reached the speed zone. Moreover, the county citation forms says this "violation" is $75, but he wrote the ticket for $95. Nice racket. There is lots of transient traffic through this town. He can write $4000 worth of tickets a day, knowing that most of them won’t be contested.

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