380 West of town
Never actually got a ticket in Runaway Bay but that’s because when I go through there they usually have someone else pulled over. Was eating in Jacksboro at Village Kitchen and started talking to a state trooper who was there. In the course of our conversation he said that all the Runaway Bay police were good at was writing tickets.
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Amazing a Trooper whose 90% of his business is writing citations, is commenting on another law enforcement officer, who does the same thing?? His integrity is questionable, if the conversation ever happened! On one of the busiest stretches of 380, with over 47,000 kids visiting Sid Richardsons Scout Camp in 2012, not to mention the Texas Tech kiddos that use our city roadway as a launching pad to get back to and from school; Runaway Bay only had 1 accident last year!
And for the record a Speed Trap is defined as a stretch of roadway with no visible warning signs of immediate drop in speed. On both ends of our city limits there is a warning sign, all you have to do is be able to read, and if you can't you shouldn't be driving!!!
Your town was notorious for writing tickets to motorists for writing expensive tickets for minimal infractions. Go ahead and tell yourself it was in the name of public safety, but the truth is it was a racquet to gen revenue. There has obviously been a change in leadership, because you no longer see 3 patrol cars writing tickets on that stretch of road on a daily basis like you used to and I'm guessing there still aren't many accidents.
Again, if person's would learn how to read the big white signs, with the black numbers on them, and at the top of each of those signs there are letters that read, "speed limit" you may not be crying about getting a ticket. When your doing 17 to 25 mph over 55, (55mph is the State of Texas decision, not the cities), you deserve what you get.
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