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: The Stadium Drive WMU Power Plant speed trap
: was in operation today at 2:41 p.m. Despite
: light traffic, the Kalamazoo Department of
: Public Safety all-black patrol car was doing
: good business. Just as the officer waved
: over a large bluish pickup truck, the
: previous speeder in a car was pulling out of
: the power plant driveway. With Western
: Michigan University students beginning their
: return for the fall semester, this speedtrap
: and others on the west side of Kalamazoo may
: be in operation over the next few weeks.
: Students new to Kalamazoo will also probably
: receive their first $8 ticket for parking on
: the wrong side of the street between 2 and 6
: a.m.
:
: If you should find yourself caught speeding
: in the City of Kalamazoo, the typical ticket
: is $109 and 2 points on your license . The
: stupidest place to speed is South Park
: Street past West Crosstown Parkway. A speed
: trap sets up on Park Place at the top of a
: little hill on the left side of the road or
: in the parking lot of Sassaman Singer Eye
: Center PC on the right side of the road. If
: you are speeding here, you are really
: speeding because you are going up a hill.
: It is stupid to speed here not only because
: of the speedtrap, but also the traffic
: lights are timed at the speed limit, 30
: miles per hour, from Crosstown Parkway to
: West Michigan Avenue. You are only wasting
: fuel, wasting your brakes, polluting the
: air, contributing to thermal pollution, and
: risking a speeding ticket through here. If
: the police don't stop you from going faster
: than 30, then you are going to have to stop
: at the West Vine Street traffic light and
: every other light into downtown. So, set
: your cruise control ( unless you drive a
: Ford ) for about 25 to 28 m.p.h. and let all
: those other hot dogs go by. You'll get to
: Michigan Avenue just as soon as they will
: and you'll have saved your brakes, fuel, and
: avoided a speeding ticket.
:
: Every speed trap, except one, I've seen on
: surface streets targeted inbound traffic,
: that is heading towards downtown Kalamazoo.
: So, if you head away from the city, I don't
: expect you'll run into a speed trap, unless
: you are going up Howard Street hill by the
: Kalamazoo Public Schools Administration
: Building. I've never seen a speedtrap on
: surface streets outside of the City of
: Kalamazoo (i. e. Kalamazoo Township, City of
: Parchment, City of Portage, and neighboring
: unincorporated areas). People have told me
: they've seen speed traps in the City of
: Parchment and City of Portage, but I've
: never seen one. One reason speed traps are
: more common in the City of Kalamazoo is the
: city has more police per capita than any
: other jurisdiction in the county. I read
: the city has about 1.1 officers per 1,000
: people. On the opposite end of the
: spectrum, the Kalamazoo County Sheriff
: (which patrols unincorporated areas like
: Oshtemo Township, Texas Township, and
: Comstock Township) has only .1 officers per
: 1,000 people. So, if you get pulled over by
: a Sheriff's Deputy for speeding, you must
: have really been speeding. Excepting
: Interstate 94 and U. S. 131, the only
: targeted traffic enforcement I've seen in
: Kalamazoo County outside the City of
: Kalamazoo was a seat belt enforcement zone
: on M-96 at the village limits of Augusta
: over Memorial Day weekend 2005.
:
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