Nashville, Tennessee Speed Traps

Metro sits at this loction on and off throughout the day. Usually 8am to 12pm. Two officers, one Radar gun taking turns. They hide inside the side street and pull cars over where oncoming traffic from the Rose Pepper resturant. Be carefull coming down the hill. It’s a thirty mile per hour zone and going 4 over will get you a ticket.

Around 2 times a week during morning rush hour there is a speed trap aimed usually on those people North bound on 8th Ave going towards Broadway. SLOW DOWN through here as the cops hide behind telephone poles and then play laser tag….

This speed trap is located on Smith Springs Rd. at Butler Rd.

Metro Police will park their patrol cars on Butler Rd. well
out of view from the traffic on Smith Springs Rd. They get
out of their patrol cars and stand (hide) behind the telephone pole
at the end of Butler Rd. while they target traffic heading east
on Smith Springs Rd. which is heading toward the CastleGate
subdivison.

I have seen Metro Police there on weekdays any time from 12 noon up to 7pm.
and on weekends any time from 8am to 5pm.

Wednesday on the second week of the month seems to be a ticket quota
day for Metro traffic enforcement.

The speed limit is 35mph. Slow down before you reach Rural Hill Rd.
otherwise its too late because this is a Lidar/Laser speed trap.

If you’re coming from the Bellevue area towards I-40 on Old Hickory Boulevard in the mornings, be very careful when you get to the hill. At the bottom of the hill, before the Mapco, there is sometimes a motorcycle officer hiding behind the sign for the Madison at Ridgelake apartments.

He has a handheld radar, and since it’s a pretty steep hill, it’s hard to keep it at 45 or lower. However, there’s also a school bus stop there in the mornings, and he’ll come down HARD on traffic who fail to stop for the bus (even when going the opposite direction, as there’s no median).

Just be careful when passing through here in the morning. If you pay attention, you’ll have plenty of time to see whether he’s there or not.

After passing over I-40 and continuing on White Bridge Road/Robertson Road towards the 155 Briley Parkway interchange Loop, the lane reduces to a single lane entrance ramp. This single lane joins another lane and the police stand on the slim island between the two merging interchanges. They point a hand held radar gun at both merging roads and pull cars over. This is a very dangerous intersection with fly over ramps and traffic. Tickets (not warnings) are being issued to fill a quota. It is very dangerous for the police to be standing on the narrow island but they yell at drivers and make you pull on to the small island to get a ticket.

The problem is all signs indicate you are merging on to a two lane highway and so you accelerate to 55 miles per hour. The police agree that the speed limit when the two lanes merge is 55 miles per hour, but the entrance ramp is forty. So they ticket you for accelerating to merge into higher speed traffic.

TDOT traffic counts estimate 51,000 vehicles use this interchange each day, in addition to the 90,000 vehicles that travel this stretch of I-40 daily. So this is speed trap is really a definitely a revenue builder for the police and city