Jacinto City, Texas Speed Traps

The Jacinto City police like to station themseleves along Holland avenue and Lane street.This is the southern border of Jacinto City where it meets the northern border of Galena Park.ON the Galena Park side of Holland avenue,also know as the low road the speed limit is 45mph,however once you cross the bridge and come into Jacinto City the speed limit drops to 30mph.

The Jacinto City police like to hang out on both sides of Mercury and write tickets around Chadwick,Munn,andFlaxman streets. Alot of people are unaware that they are in a school zone. Somehow nearly all of Mercury has become a school. I don’t understand how this street is a school zone.Not one school exists on Mercury or its cross streets.The police will work this area from 2-4p.m.

Speed Limit sign is more then 1 mile before speed trap. Location is where the City of HOuston meet Jacinto City. Jacinto City is a small township less the 2.5 square miles and less than 10,000 people only source of income for town is trafric violations.

The 11900 blk of Market Street (Near Tinseltown) is a very common speed trap. Jacinto City has a very strict quota. The number one priority is traffic enforcement. If an Officer doesn’t write enough tickets he will get called into the Chief’s office. If that doesn’t work, the shift supervisor assigns an Officer somewhere where he or she can write enough tickets. The Officer is not free to patrol the city and protect citizens unless enough tickets are written. My husband worked in JC and has since left to a bigger and better Police Department. Beware when entering JC.

JC is much like the other small cities Houston has grown up around (speed trap). Though alot of the others are kind of nice, this one is a real dump. Driving through this city sucks, cops have nothing to do and will pull you over for anything, like not having a license plate light. My advice is to just avoid it which is pretty easy. Problem is on the east bound feeder most don’t know they’re in JC. I usually do the defensive driving thing because I know you can’t get away with nearly what you can in Houston.