Calvert, Texas Speed Traps

Yes, Calvert is a speed trap. Reasonable safety concerns aside, the dead giveaway is the extreme distance between the 55 and the 70 mph signs as you’re leaving town. Another good gauge of a speed trap is when the police are as likely to get you while leaving town as they are coming in. If they’re truly concerned about traffic safety, they’ll stop speeders on the way in… not out. Plus there’s that incredible distance until you get back to the 70 mph limit when there’s nothing out there except open land and pavement. It’s simply a manipulation for taxation through victimization. It also promotes people to drive slow enough to see all those antique stores as you’re passing through. Wonder if anyone actually stops? No matter how you look at it, it has less to do with traffic safety than money. It’s wrong.

Yep, I was doing 70 and as soon as I passed the sign saying the limit was 55…the cop on the other side of the road pulled me over and ticketed me for doing 70. I’m a conservative driver, you don’t even know you’re near a city!
Watch it…must be the best revenue source they have.

Speed limit signs are very close together, within 100- 200 feet.

As you pass through Calvert going North towards Waco from College Station, a cop will sit just behind the 70 posted speed limit sign and if you are going 70 as you hit the sign, they will pull you over for 15 miles above the 55 speed limit. As we all know the 70 posted speed limit isn’t until AFTER you past the sign, not when you see it.

Speed trap is on both sides of the town. The speed limit is reduced to 55 before the city limit/also meaning 55 leaving the city outside of the city limit. This is done to catch travelers that are outside of the city thinking they are outside of a speed limit zone. Crazy.