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.