Nashville, Tennessee Speed Traps

This is a residential street between Harding Place and Nolensville Road. People taking this short cut tend to be in a hurry, so they exceed the speed limit of 30. The residents of the street request those "your speed" radar units and have also been successful at getting uniformed officers to sit in driveways and run speedtraps, usually between 3 and 7 pm. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

The overnight (11PM to 6AM) flashing yellow light for Rosa Parks Blvd, changed to flashing red light near the end of March 2010. Metro officers are pulling over cars for not stopping at the flashing red light – even if they do stop! A friend and I got off with warnings that "running red lights/stop signs are self correcting crimes, sooner or later we will have an accident".

Right at the entrance ramp to I-40 Westbound police will park a car about once a month or so to radar traffic coming up on the entrance. The area is a 30MPH zone but people have a tendency to speed up when coming up to the turn lane. The trap is most often set when it’s dusk or dark immediately under the bridge where they can hide in the shadows and pull everyone over into the lane.

Almost every Friday night for months Metro ocifers sit in the drives of businesses on the west side of 21st Ave between I-440 and Blair Blvd. Their favorite is people coming off of 440 who are forced to merge into a whacko intersection at Woodlawn Ave. and the speed limit goes from either 45 (for Hillsboro Rd.) or “ramp” down to 30 with very little time or space to process everything. I’m about ready to set up streaming video.

The most active speed trap in Nashville. Cops set at side road. near where speed limit drops. Most daylight hours, they WILL BE THERE !