You poor bastids in Flower Mound...

[black roadster]

Looks like your city has quite a reputation.

[Flyin96M]

Link doesnt work.

[SirHustlerEsq]

I always thought that was weird, nice to have some validation.

[black roadster]

Link doesnt work.

Works for me.

If the speed limit changes four times in two miles and police cars can barely be seen lurking behind bridges and oversize shrubs, the writing is on the wall: You're in a speed trap.

According to a new list compiled by the National Motorists Association, a drivers-rights advocacy organization, the worst speed traps in North America are in a suburb of Dallas, a small city in Michigan and a town in Ontario, Canada.

The NMA's official definition of a speed trap is a spot that "combine[s] arbitrarily low speed limits with heavy traffic enforcement designed to generate ticket revenue."



Flower Mound, Texas; Livonia, Mich.; and Windsor, Ontario, were the three worst offenders by the NMA's criteria. But special recognition also went to Detroit, where 187 speed traps are reported in towns surrounding Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.


Overall, Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada, scored highest in the speed-trap rankings, which were compiled by analyzing five years' worth of data on the NMA's National Speed Trap Exchange, a website where drivers post speed-trap information. The District of Columbia, South Carolina, Michigan, Iowa and Tennessee were the worst in the U.S. The states with the fewest speed traps were Rhode Island, Minnesota and New Hampshire.


The website Trapster.com came out with a list earlier this summer of the big cities in the U.S. with the worst speed-trap problems. New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., topped the charts. Copious red-light cameras and eager traffic cops in New York are the reason for its high ranking.


To help drivers avoid falling into any of these traps, Trapster.com has an interactive map on both its website and its mobile-phone application that shows the hot spots throughout the country.


[Sources: National Motorists Association, Gasbuddy.com,Trapster.com]

[GregW]

Nice. I just rode through there yesterday

[motorollow]

They might as well install toll booths. Over on the eastside in the Land of Gar, they have figured out they can pick off speeders on George Bush with a motorcycle cop. People not only get to pay the toll to NTTA, but also contribute to the City of Garland coffers. The tollroad is already heavily patroled by the State highway patrol, what's next the sheriff's dept?? How many government agencies do we need patroling one road?

(FYI - I have never received a ticket on George Bush).

[EricJ]

Yes, we have to pay for the roads built so all the Highland Village residents can get to/from work. A way for them to pay their fair share.

[ozzie84]

No wonder I've seen so nanny officers around firewheel during rush hour

[Billy Blaze]

I worked in Flower Mound three years and never got pulled over and sped most of the time...this must be new

Dont get me started on Tollroads

[2K Miata]

Crime rate must be low and therefore the cops have nothing to do. The thing is their sped traps are a joke if you have a radar detector. Every speed trap I've seen in FM the cop has the KA locked on and they really don't take much effort to hide from plain sight - or pick new spots. Not to mention they drive around with their radar on all the time, so incase you don't have a detector or some clue you should be safe in FM.