Broomfield, Colorado Speed Traps
US Highway 36 near Interstate 25
This is a deliberate and obscene trap using three unmaked cars without government plates. One is White, one is Tan, and the Third is Light Blue. I have seen any of the three on both sides of the road at all times of the day. They seem to grab whomever is going the fastest, but I have seen them just randomly pull someone over. There are no distiguishing signs of the car that tell you it is a police car until they pull you over.
State Highway 287 near NorthWest Parkway
South bound 287 just before you enter Broomfield, State Patrol likes to sit on the right side of the road just after a big hill.
Wadsworth Parkway at Park n Ride
Police cruisers park at the west entrance to the RTD Park n Ride. They clock northbound vehicles coming from the 55mph to 35mph zones. The speed limit is 35mph over the bridges, then 45mph along U.S. 287 through the middle of Broomfield, the reverse of what any reasonable person would expect.
West Midway Blvd. west of U.S. 287
The speed limit on west Midway Boulevard used to be 40mph, which was safe and reasonable for the amount of traffic through this industrial area where the street is extremely wide and has a center turn lane. In 1999 or 2000 they dropped the speed limit to 30mph and started setting a speed trap in a parking lot on the south side of the street west of Burbank Street. Most people drive 35mph to 40mph on this road. Sometimes they have a police cruiser here, and sometimes it is a photo radar trailer (the kind that shows your speed on an electronic sign on top). There are long periods when there is no trap, but that’s usually when they suddenly set the photo radar trailer out. They also use the photo radar trailer on Hoyt next to Richard S. Steel Park for northbound or Geneva Pharmaceuticals for southbound vehicles where the speed limit is an even more unreasonable 25mph well over 1000 feet before it becomes a residential area.
Sharidan around 136th
Traveling either North or South on Sharidan Blvd. the speed limit goes from 35mph to 25mph 4 blocks before 136th Ave. While it is clearly marked, it is very easy to miss it. The cops will pull you over immediately upon entering the 25mph zone.