Another traffic-crackdown roundup from Seattle Police tonight – just published on SPD Blotter minutes ago:
On 35th Avenue SW, a 35 mph zone,
1 at 58 mph
1 at 51 mph
1 at 50 mph
3 at 49 mph
2 at 48 mph
2 at 46 mph
2 at 45 mph12 Cell Phone violations
1 Stop Sign
1 Following Too Close
1 No Proof of Insurance========
On the West Seattle Bridge, a 45 mph zone,
1 at 70 mph
1 at 68 mph
1 at 65 mph
1 at 60 mph
1 at 59 mph2 vehicles for Racing
3 No Proof of Insurance
1 Bus Lane violation
Speeding tickets are a tax on the stupid.
Nice work SPD, keep it up!
This is awesome. Saw the guys on 35th. Wonderful. Sad we can’t be responsible adults and “police” ourselves and abide by laws so clearly existing for safety. Great job SPD: keep it up!!!!
Thank you SPD. Husband says they are out in force. We appreciate your hard work!
I was looking at the proof of insurance requirements and a collector plate allows you to go uninsured. And if you have a spare 60K laying around, you can put it in a CD and pledging it to the State Treasurer is another way of saving on insurance. I suppose now I’ll have some tragic accident and be left sad and destitute, but insurance IS expensive. And the tickets ain’t cheap either.
I’m glad they’re ticketing for cell phone violations; it’s beyond ridiculous that people still think that’s okay.
@Lame,
It’s NOT so lame because the city needs money and this is a good way to generate it. The law is the law. I am very aware when I am risking a ticket.
And really, nobody should be driving at those speeds on 35th!!
I’m with the majority — good work, SPD. Particularly on the often observed, but rarely ticketed, “driving/following too close.” Lots more people need tickets, though, obviously. But the SPD can — and should — get back to the work of fighting crime, which they can IF we do the smart and really the only thing: turn 35th into one lane each way. But, until then, thank you and good work SPD! Unbelievable how fast sociopathic idiots were going. Oh @Lame, the city’s not raking in dough. Remember, it costs manpower to put cops in cars. Then when the self-absorbed morons see their ticket and realize what it will do to their insurance, they waste more public dollars tying up court staff with frivolous appeals — and until judges stop granting them passes and breaks, it’s going to remain big costs and zero profit for city coffers. But, at least 35th is a TEENY bit safer. For now. but when the patrols go, the traffic fatalities will return. Until we fix 35th with one lane each way, the city is literally standing idly watching people die that they know will die but that don’d need to die because the road is inherently dangerous and can be fixed.
Lame -“Just the city trying to get money again.”
Really? The city gets about $45.00 out of a typical $124.00 ticket. I don’t see a cash cow out of these tickets. Driving close to 60 mph on 35th deserves a Negligent Driving ticket.
Safety? Yes!
Tickets? Whatever.
Making 35th one lane? NO!!!
People, one lane is less safe than two. If you need to swerve to avoid something, one lane each way puts you in to oncoming traffic. Traffic will backup at rushhour, which will cause more fender benders, which will cause more delays.
Want safety on the roads? Teach your children how to drive. Stay in the right lane if you want to go slow so people can safely pass on the left. Use turn signals. Etc.
Reverting to single lanes on 35th would not magically increase safety! It would be a true waste of the city’s money.
I love this!!! People treat that roadlike its a highway. Slow down already people!!! Enjoy the drive.
After working on Fauntleroy post construction and now on Delridge, I can say that the 1 lane option only results in daily use of the middle turn lane as a passing lane. I see it every day and I keep saying soon it will be a head on.
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Think before you type. It’s one lane each way with a center turn lane.
I hope this continues after spring break. I drive the elementary school time slot for delivery and pickup of step grandson. I get to see the truly clueless/kamikaze highschoolers hit the street at 2:30. Put a few back on their bicycles and the rest may learn something that will keep them alive long enough to become taxpayers.
Speed limit changes and “road diet” are not the answer for this major arterial. Enforcement (especially cell phone) is the key.
I drive through the marked “photo enforced” area (camp long) each day and most drivers are strictly at 33 – 35 mph in that zone since the right hand side of the street has several residents who park their white suv’s on the street and the speeders can’t tell until they get close whether it is the photo van or a resident.
SPD should chose a few other spots for “photo enforced” zones but use the criteria of the number of white cars or vans as the trigger for where to site them.
Cost efficient for the city and annoying for the chronic speeders.
Now if people actually paid the full value of those tickets, rather than getting the price reduced for “showing up” in court. It’s like the mom who grounds their kid for a week, and the next day allows them go to party anyhow.
Glad to see that they are busting people for bus lane violations. It makes me angry when cars blatently use the lane, get in the long line of traffice with the rest of us.
I wish they would crack down on California Ave. Especially right after high school gets out its a speed way!! And I witnessed an old guy in lincoln suv go thru both cross walks while people/kids were walking!!! How can I turn this jerk in-? Also- behind my house on Glenn Way people SPEED thru-and up Genesse hill- Im afraid to let my kids walk anywhere!!
Wish they had been out last night around 5. The cab I was in was going 52 mph southbound on 35th!
I love how some people completely miss the point of SPD enforcing the speed limits. Do you really think “they” are out to make money?
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Yeah… that’s the reason someone got a ticket. It had *nothing* to do with the fact they were breaking the law.
I am sick of the argument “they should be fighting real crimes” In my book if your speeding,talking on cell or driving in bus lanes then you are reckless. You are no better than a drug dealer selling to children. Your actions can and will kill or mame. Wake the F up!
Speeding tickets are lame!
To each their own. Unless you are driving reckless and swerving in and out of lanes. Who cares if your 10-15 miles over the “speed limit”
35 MPH is a joke on 35th! A 4 lane road. Get over it people.
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