Riverside, Missouri Speed Traps

Coming out of Riverside onto I-29 Northbound, is the large Gateway Drive Fly-over which comes down onto the right side of I-29. Platte County and Missouri Highway Patrol love sitting up on top of the fly-over with their little radar gun, with as many as four patrol cars waiting at the ready to swoop down and ticket you for going over 45 (or is it 55, I don’t ever come that way)

Getting off at the exit off the Hwy to go to Vivion Rd, Riverside Exit. Coming off the Exit stopped at the stop sign. Then down to 1 lane for contruction, cones marked over the hill side road cops are sitting and pulling everyone over, fines double for construction zone.
Signs originally said 35 m.p.h, and you are supposed to automatically know that they are 10 m.p.h less in a construction zone, after many complaints finally they put up 25 m.p.h signs. many tickets given out here.

The Horizons Parkway exit is currently under construction, and the Riverside Public Safety department is practicing opportunistic enforcement of this work zone. As you are traveling NB on I-635 and cross the Missouri river bridge from Kansas into Missouri, you must slow down very rapidly from full highway speed to the work zone posted speed of 50 MPH. An officer will be positioned with LIDAR to catch anyone who might still be decelerating. While work zone speed enforcement is usually a good thing, this department’s enforcement represents a Speed Trap because the area being enforced is the first few hundred feet of the zone, far from the actual construction area. When our state officials enacted these work zone laws, the intent was to protect highway workers, not to have local police agencies aggressively enforcing these laws outside of areas where construction workers are actually present. Riverside Public Safety is doing the citizens of Riverside, the state of Missouri, and highway construction workers a great disservice by picking-up "easy" citations from people who haven�t yet had an opportunity to slow down for a work zone that is still a few thousand feet ahead.

Riverside Police and the Highway Patrol routinely run radar on I-635 in the north and southbound lanes. The enforcement is usually very early in the morning or in the middle of the afternoon. If you are traveling in the southbound lanes, slow down before you approach 9 highway. The officer will sit on the top of the hill with his lights turned off, and it will be too late by the time you see him. They also sit on the exit ramps from 9 Highway.