TX State Hwy 287 at Rayburn Road

Corrigan, TexasJan 24, 20121 Comments

I’m 42 and I have a massive respect for law enforcers, the concept of law, and execute safe driving to a degree that normally gets me ridiculed as being a goodie-goodie. I even on occasion will anonymously pick up a cop’s tab at restaurants out of appreciation and that I abhor those with no respect for their fellow man.
I’ve only had 4 speeding tickets in my life 2 (of course) when I was a teen with only 2 in my adult life.
Both of those were issued to me in this worthless town of Corrigan, 10 years apart.
I’m through with using 287 for travel between DFW and Beaumont, which I do upwards of 4 times a year. I’m taking the Interstates from now on, via Dallas to Houston on I-45. The issue is these parasitical communities relish in taking advantage of wildly-deviating speed limits in the matter of yards coupled with the pressure from motorists riding your rear to pressure you to not just stick cruising at the low. This reveals the core priority is NOT public safety, it’s revenue-generation. But, for me this issue is over with because after this last ticket, I came back using the Interstate cruising a vastly-more steady 65-70 with adequate signage and found (as I long suspected) absolutely no loss to time or mileage.
And, besides from now on, if I do get pulled over, it will be by a state trooper, thus I won’t be supplementing bottom-feeder communities anymore.
So, if you commute the same route I do, please consider going totally around as I describe. You won’t be expected to look for purposefully-inadequate speed signs and if you’re happy to set your cruise at an honest speed limit that alters very little for miles on end, your troubles will be over.

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Over two years ago I received a ticket in Corrigan, Tx. while the police officer was sitting in the South bound median shooting radar at the North bound traffic because he was hid behind the trees(small flowering trees) planted in the median. I was coming from Crockett, Tx. returning home to New Caney, Tx. where I live. Officer stopped me just before the 70 mph. and I stopped as soon as he put on his lights. This town is 4 miles from city limit to city limit on 59 with 10 changes in speed signs on the N.B. side and 9 on S.B. side. Even though I read on this site you can't win in court in this town, I fought the ticket. When I lost, I posted a $350.00 bond and moved the case to Livingston. After two years it finally came to trial on the 14th of August and I had a trial and the jury came back hung. I was set for trial again on August 19, 2013. We (my husband and I) came back to Court. I was informed the District attorney had dismissed the case. I immediately told them I wanted a dismissal sheet and my $350.00 cash bond returned to me. I got it the next day in the mail. Why? I acted as my own attorney and came with well over 100 tickets which I got from Corrigan under the Open Records Act which showed tickets being changed from "speeding" to a "failure to appear" which Corrigan judge will allow you to plead to, so you don't have a moving violation and "Deferred Ajudication" pleading which costs you an additional $50.00 so it doesn't show on your driving record and No points are added on your insurance and it doesn't appear on your driving record in Austin. Also I had tickets which showed speed above 30 miles an hour on 18 wheelers( judge Not supposed to allow deferred adjudication) according to law. Not supposed to allow Defensive driving for 25 and above speed limits and definitely not in a school zone. They do it all. This is revenue at its very worst. I paid 10c a copy for each ticket they were forced to give me. The J.P. Judge said they copied 30,000 copies, if, I got all of them. I paid out a good deal for copies and went to Corrigan and Livingston,Tx. a minimum of 10-12 trips. I know most people can't do this. It is too costly and time consuming. This time they stopped a 64 year old woman who is stubborn and hard-headed and will not stop fighting if I know I'm right. They didn't make a penny on me when it was over with and YES I probably spent much more than that. The good news is "Corrigan "lost' this fight. If you aren't guilty and you can fight these people we will give them something to think about. I will tell you right now I would NOT have minded putting my name on this comment and this site has my email address to prove who I am. clois
#1Sep 04, 2013Report Abuse

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