Shoreacres, Texas Speed Traps

Shoreacres is a little town made up of low cost housing and trailer parks about 1 square mile. Unfortunately, they have about 850 yards of “city limits” on Hwy 146 that extends about 200 feet west of Hwy 146; basically just enough to set up a “speed trap” to prey on freeway traffic to financially support the low income town of 1,200 people. The backwoods police department couldn’t care less about the safety of the town or it’s citizens, they prefer to sit on the 1/2 mile of the highway they have jurisdiction over and milk the people on the highway for municipal funds. The speed limit sign for the highway isn’t even in their section of the highway.

SH146 is under construction. Speed limit is now 45 mph. Few motorists adhere to the limit, and Shoreacres police are loving it.

Law Enforcement vehicles sit along side of traffic barrier in a curve on the south bound side so that they won’t be seen.

The police sit against the fence in the median and watch the traffic light. Their favorite way to do this is when it is dark and they can hide with their lights off.

For years the southbound traffic on Hwy. 146 coming out of La Porte’s city limits and into Shoreacres’ city limits has come around one of the best speed traps in the world. It is such a great trap that the Officer can sit in the center median and not even hide. You come around the corner and the Officer has a straight shot at you with rear radar on the back dash of his/her patrol car. For many years, the speed limit was 55mph through there, but the state raised it to 65 in about 1997 roughly. That put a dent in the ticket count, but the trap still exists regardless. To the benefit of the city and Officers, the intersection of Hwy. 146 and Shoreacres Blvd. is one of the few (if any) in Harris County that is 65 mph. That is pretty dang fast for any traffic light intersection, much less the main artery into the city. When it was 55 it was dangerous enough, but now it is really bad.