Posted by Ted Mittelstaedt on June 22, 2008, 3:12 am
> > The Oregon legislature actually passed a law a few years back that
> > restricted the amount of ticket revenue these towns could take. There
> > was one down off I-5 somewhere that was getting something like
> > 7 million dollars a year in speeding tickets and it comprised about
> > 95% of their entire city budget. Somehow that town had got ODOT
> > to reduce the posted speed on that small section of I-5 to 55. The
> > rest of I-5 is 65 or higher.
> What city is it? It is already bad enough coming through california
> which is 70 on i5
Coburg, OR. I looked it up, actually I was a bit off on their figures.
Their "best" year was 2003-2004 when they fetched $774K comprising
around 50% of their budget.
In 2006-2007 they fetched $324K comprising 30% of their budget
Good story about it here:
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t •860
Here's where the good stuff is, though:
http://www.copspy.com/OR.html
Ted
Posted by Ted Mittelstaedt on June 22, 2008, 3:12 am
> > The Oregon legislature actually passed a law a few years back that
> > restricted the amount of ticket revenue these towns could take. There
> > was one down off I-5 somewhere that was getting something like
> > 7 million dollars a year in speeding tickets and it comprised about
> > 95% of their entire city budget. Somehow that town had got ODOT
> > to reduce the posted speed on that small section of I-5 to 55. The
> > rest of I-5 is 65 or higher.
> What city is it? It is already bad enough coming through california
> which is 70 on i5
Coburg, OR. I looked it up, actually I was a bit off on their figures.
Their "best" year was 2003-2004 when they fetched $774K comprising
around 50% of their budget.
In 2006-2007 they fetched $324K comprising 30% of their budget
Good story about it here:
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t •860
Here's where the good stuff is, though:
http://www.copspy.com/OR.html
Ted
Posted by Larry Blanchard on June 22, 2008, 11:45 am
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:20:57 -0700, Janice wrote:
>> > What city is it? It is already bad enough coming through california
>> > which is 70 on i5
>>
>> Coburg, OR. I looked it up, actually I was a bit off on their figures.
>>
The worst speed trap in Oregon used to be a little town called Jordan
Valley. Back in the 70s they got almost all of their budget from speeding
tickets. I don't know if that's still the case or not.
Posted by . on June 22, 2008, 2:43 pm
> The worst speed trap in Oregon used to be a little town called Jordan
> Valley. �Back in the 70s they got almost all of their budget from speeding
> tickets. �I don't know if that's still the case or not.
I drove through Jordan Valley about four times in 1972 and never had
any
problem with the police there. I had to stop and have my battery
charged twice though.
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> > restricted the amount of ticket revenue these towns could take. There
> > was one down off I-5 somewhere that was getting something like
> > 7 million dollars a year in speeding tickets and it comprised about
> > 95% of their entire city budget. Somehow that town had got ODOT
> > to reduce the posted speed on that small section of I-5 to 55. The
> > rest of I-5 is 65 or higher.
> What city is it? It is already bad enough coming through california
> which is 70 on i5