State troopers always patrol this strip. They park by the railroad tracks at hwys 80 and 2422, and in the gravel parking lot at old abandoned store on S side of 80 in Hoarde. Often they are rolling E or W on 80, to radar oncoming traffic. They monitor the long river bottom E of Hoarde.
Local yokels in Mineola regularly stop westbound incoming cars where the speed drops from 70 to 60, 50, 40, and 30 in a short distance. They also watch for and catch eastbound cars that speed up too quickly in, or coming out of, the 30 zone from the light at 80 and 69.