Springville, Alabama Speed Traps

Highway 11 goes from 55 MPH to 45 MPH as you enter the city limits. Then is progressively cuts down to 35 and later 25 southward. The local police back up out of eyesight in the school drive. Looking down hill on the highway. Later, the same car is backed into the Presbyterian Church parking lot behind a hedgerow. This is my church and I almost hit the car turning in to cut the grass. This again is a small town needing revenue and counting on out of town people to mess up.

At and around Walmart, including the roads into and out of the parking lot. Using market cars, using a motorcycle, and using a totally unmarked dark gray Ford F150 pickup.

Traveling Southbound on I-59 past the AL174/Springville exit there is a wooded median. Just as the median clears there is spot where AL State Troopers run radar any day-any time. The Speed Limit is Interstate Standard 70 mph, but the troopers tend to not give much latitude…tickets for 75 are not uncommon.

3/2008

Any time going from Straight Mountain to Springville, down Murphree Valley Road, the City Police will be backed off the road in the small dirt "log roads" and trees. Sometimes it will be cars, other times motor cycles. I was going on this road, following a truck. I was pulled over for speeding. When ask why the truck was not stopped, I was told that I was behind the truck, therefore I was the one speeding. I answered that if I was behind, he had to be speeding if I was or I would run over him. The officer thought this very funny and stated that the truck was not speeding, but he only gave me a warning. Almost every morning going to work, cars will be pulled over to the side. The speed limit is 35 and they mean 35. This is about 3 miles before getting into the populated area.

The City Limit sign is about 3 miles out in country. When entering the city, until the actual residential section on Murphree Valley Road, the city police are almost constantly there and very strict. They will write a ticket