Bellevue, Washington Speed Traps

SUV (white) across from Fire Dept at top of hill parked facing wrong way toward traffic coming up the hill. late at night when you’re very close to home it’s easy to do 35mph in this 25mph zone.

The hilly 24th St between the 134th Ave NE and 140th Ave NE makes observing the 30MPH limit practically impossible without wearing out your brake pads every year. The traffic police would emerge from any way from one of the side lanes or malls. It is very difficult to plead for leniency at the Bellevue traffic court.

For those who travel down Lakemont Blvd on a regular basis kmay not know that the speed limit is 30mph. However, because the street is relatively wide, most drivers are unaware. In between the Forest Drive and NE 164th streets, there is a fire station where the police hide near – it could be in the bushes across or in one of the nearby streets…..look out for them.

There’s a big hill where everybody goes at least 40-45 MPH downhill (including cops) on a wide 4-lane road. The posted limit is 35. Cops tend to hide in the trees at the bottom of the hill and nail people going 5-7 over. I got one for going 41.

Since I’m here (having posted a trap that got me yesterday) I though I’d mention this too. Starbucks, Bellevue (106th Av/ NE 8th) – 10/11 pm, often 2,3,4 patrol cars are parked as officers change shifts and stop for coffee. One evening I noticed two unmarked cars with ram-bars on the front parked in the same (no-parking!) spot. Closer inspection revealed that they were in fact un marked police vehicles (laptops mounted in passenger seat, radios etc.) Sure enough, inside Starbucks there were traffic cops. I didn’ t take note of the make etc. of the cars (only just found this site), and it was dark. But they looked identical to patrol cars, just painted dark blue instead. They had extra external antennae, and also ram bars on the front. Anyway, just a FYI that there are unmarked cars operating in the Bellevue area.