The Aggressive Drivers Response Team‘s latest report just turned up on SPD Blotter, with top speeding tickets mentioned including 54 mph on 35th SW, 58 mph on Admiral Way, 66 mph on the West Seattle Bridge, among other spots. Full list here. (P.S. The speed-camera van also has been spotted on 35th SW today, according to a phone call we received. And no, police do NOT mind if we warn you.)
Suh-WEET!!! Have fun paying those fines and increased insurance premiums, speeders! I hope it was all worth saving a few seconds on your drive.
Yeah! Keep up the GREAT work handing out those tickets. I love reading these updates!!!
I live on 35th and people drive way too fast, so I’m fine with ’em getting tickets till they learn to slow down, you’re a bad enough driver as it is West Seattle. . .
Great to keep reading these reports.
However, I would love to see them patrol at different parts of the day and I would like to see the camera van left out overnight.
Would also love to see an emphasis patrol on Holden Street as well.
I am always happy to see the cars giving out the tickets below the bridge! I say keep it up. You guys are saving lives!
admiral way, please start earlier than 9 a.m.
say 5:30 a.m. get their pocket books. almost every car-way over limit. keep it up. i’ve noticed less speeders more and more.
I’m happy to hear about the bus lane violations on the West Seattle Bridge! I’m so tired of getting over in the right lane to be able to get on the Viaduct, only to have people speed past in the bus lane, then cut everyone off who patiently waited in line like they were supposed to.
I saw the officers on Admiral at 5:15 this morning.
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Why do people have to drive nearly 60 mph in a 30 zone? Crazy.
At 6:40ish AM today an SPD Charger was sitting in the little SW Manning Street/Spokane just before the bridge on-ramp with lights off waiting. I’d wondered where they were before…
Well … is this making 35th any safer, or is it just a sampling of the 10mph-plus speeders they caught within a small window of time in the morning one day? And after they left, did drivers magically all drive below 35mph? The fact is, that ticketing will not alter behavior. And the minute the police leave, the danger and road rage elevates again. And mark may words: until the city reduces the lanes from four to two — someone else will die. And the city knows it. The only question is, WHEN….
Won’t be long and the city will have a surplus budget. Counted 53 tickets in the list for today. Thanks to everyone for your donation and helping the officers improve their penmanship at your expense.
I drove 30 on admiral yesterday (not normally a street I drive on) to see what “safe” driving is like. My conclusion: anyone on here who thinks 40 mph on either 35th or admiral is “dangerous” should have to retake the drivers license road test because you are obviously not qualified to operate a motor vehicle.
magpie: and if they’d come up onto the bridge deck a little sooner, they would have seen at least 10 moving violations from the vashon island hell’s angels wannabes, including aggressive driving and speeding.
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i dunno, (required). i got nabbed doing 51 coming out of the battery street tunnel two years ago, and i won’t be doing that again any time soon anywhere on the bridge or 99, especially now that the cops are radar gunning on the flats south of the viaduct, too.
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when you see the price tag, you’ll think twice about racking up more tickets.
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unless you’re an idiot.
Ok (Required), since you don’t seem to like this immediate solution, what do YOU suggest?
Yeah it’s so important to catch speeders early in the morning, likely going to work to pay their taxes on a house that isn’t worth what the taxes are based off of, pulled over by a $150K/year cop in a $50K Charger, all paid for by said taxes.
Looking at the number of comments, I knew there would be at least one that thinks this all about budgets and making money. The point is – people are breaking the law. That is how you get a ticket. See how it works?
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(required), where did you get your “fact” about how tickets don’t alter behavior? The “fact” is – there are less speeders breaking the law because people realize that law is being enforced recently.
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I wish there was a way to find out how many of these people getting tickets are repeat offenders.
@RickyBobby: I drive 30mph on Admiral, not because I think any faster would be dangerous, but because it’s the law. If you can’t understand that the law trumps whatever someone’s personal opinion is about dangerous speeds, you should have to retake the drivers license road test because you are obviously not qualified to operate a motor vehicle.
This topic is getting so boring. SPD can keep ticketing on Admiral until the end of time. I drive it everyday..I get it…30mph. It is all the service vehicles coming to WS that speed up the hill. It will always be that way. And Monday a SPD followed all of us up Admiral and a car crossed all lanes from Jack in the Box cutting cars off and SPD did nothing. And when the light at Admiral and CA changed to green and the car in front of me doesn’t move, again nothing.
All of you that are so excited about someone getting ticketed on Admiral must have have been ticketed before…or you have nothing else to do but blabber on about this.
2wheels, I like to think that I’ve reached a stage of moral development that allows me to deliberately violate what I deem to be an arbitrary or unjust law. If no one ever broke laws there’d be no United States, no independent India and no Civil Rights. Mindlessly doing what the goverent tells you is dangerous to a much larger degree than going 40 on admiral.
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