Tomball, Texas Speed Traps

This is a favorite weekend and night time speed trap of the Tomball Police. They park in a driveway of a vacant lot. Most of the time I see them there in the late afternoon and night.

Hwy 249 North is 50 and then drops to 45 mph in an area where there are no houses, buildings etc, open highway, it leads to the new bypass. Police are always sitting in side areas and on bypass right over the hill.

There is a store located at the corner of FM-2920 and Park Road. The speed limit changes from 55mph to 45mph just before passing the store heading into Tomball. Two Harris County cops sit there at any time of day..

There is a school near a church where the speed limit is 20, but they will wirite you a ticket even if you’re in the 45 mile per hour zone, which is well passed this point, and write the address back at the church on it. they are hard up for extra money, or have nothing better to do with their time on duty, i suppose! be careful!

This new Speed Trap is when you approach Tomball Wal-Mart coming into town. They hide in the parking lot just before Wal-Mart with radar/lidar guns pointed at traffic. I’ve noticed them working in pairs.
Speed limit slows from 55 to 40 around here, so watch it. And now with construction, it’s down to 35 mph! I think they drag their feet on construction to drag out this speed trap. They sure are taking advantage of this. People in my office alread got speeding tickets in that area.

In summary, the whole town of Tomball is Speed Trap. There are few roads in or out of this forsaken place. I moved here to work. What a mistake. I have never in my life seen so many people pulled over. Every day around here. Morning noon and night. They look for anything and everything. Any excuse to approach you and see what else they can hammer you for.

Public Safety? Or revenue enhancement? It is NOT about public safety here. It IS about financing the City of Tomball. Make no mistake!

I think the Texas Rangers need to step in and take a look at City of Tomball practices and possibly review the books. It’s very bad here.