San Diego, California Speed Traps

A motorcycle cop hides between parked cars with his radar gun. You dont see him until he walks out into the street and tells you to pull over.

There is often a motorcycle cop parked on First Ave. in Banker’s Hill, right where the First Street Bridge ends going south. The bridge has a downhill incline and you have to brake a lot to keep from going too fast. He sits in a road dip near where Nutmeg St dead-ends, and it’s almost impossible to see him until you get to the end of the bridge. Very tricky.

This may or may not be for speeding, but usually 1 out of 5 times I take this route there is a CHP car (same officer everytime sitting on the I-15 Southbound onramp from Hwy 56. He sits there in the morning on the shoulder of the on ramp, right at the top by the metered red lights. He waits for on ramp car pool lane violations, as well as tickets people for rolling through the light, like me. You cannot see him sitting there as you approach, all of the other cars backed up in the right on ramp lane block him from view. So if you plan on running the light or violating the car pool lane for this on ramp beware. He is there a lot!

Multiple motorcylcle cops sit under the 805 freeway on the 52 east (leaving the coast) I have seen this early in the morning, and mid-late afternoon. They are invisible as they are at a blind curve, blocked by vegetation.

The road has low and high points. CHP waits at the low points with Radar at traffic heading south.