This is a speed trap, I was given a ticket. I don't go that way any more.

2/14/2015 Westwego, LA-River Road near Klein St. Was traveling this route daily since 1971 and since 1995 at least once a week, both ways. As long as the speed limits were posted and their were numerous time that the marked police cars were parked along side of river Rd.-you didn't have to be a Rhodes Scholar to figure out what they were parked there for! And most common sense people accepted that this was a posted notice-travel at your own risk. But in my opinion, this changed within the last year or so-Westwego placed a contraption that could be mistaken for a portable light generator at worse or maybe a machine that might flash your speed, like the more technical ones on the Causeway bridge that serves to let you know only the speed you are traveling-not this one in Westwego-never did it alert you of your speed and certainly was not identified as a camera/photo machine, No markings on this contraption, nor any posted warnings along the roadway, like New Orleans has: that you are entering a speed zone camera, within a mile in both directions of this speed trap. At the end of January, I received a notice/violation in the U.S. Mail of 10 miles over the posted speed limit. And if that contraption took pictures of every vehicle that exceeded the speed limit, most by more than 10 mph-it probably would would have run out of film. And since there were no deterrents i.e., police car parked and/or NO posted signs anywhere between the Huey P. Long bridge and Barataria Blvd for miles in either direction of River Road-this resulted in a speed trap. I think this needs to be tested in the courts-higher not local. And by the way, I went that route yesterday, (2/13/15) with my camera-And the CONTRAPTION was gone-nowhere to be found? And just a couple of days ago, I mentioned this to a knowledegable source in Westwego. Coincidence, maybe!? Thanks, Hard Working Taxpayer