Comments on: ECSO Deploys Speed-Checking Trailers That Use Technology To Battle Speeding

By: Skip

Skip — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:00:49 +0000

I live on Fowler Ave between 9 mile and 9 1/2 mile roads and this street appears to be a cut through for traffic and speed seems to be excessive. I dont have a radar gun so I am guessing at speeds. There are no posted speed limit signs on this little stretch of road so my guess is drivers feel they can travel as fast as they need to. This is a residential area yet much of the traffic is dump trucks and larger trucks with trailers. There are speed bumps however they seem to have very little affect .
Speed Checking trailer would be great however I would like to see speed limit signs posted first.

By: Gerg

Gerg — Fri, 28 May 2021 17:26:02 +0000

Lol….nothing will be done. Prove me wrong. Answer this….how many deputies have you seen writing tickets? My count is 0….how about yours?

By: Traffic

Traffic — Wed, 26 May 2021 20:10:53 +0000

When deployed they are set up for different speeds. For example if it’s a 35mph zone street then they would set it to start displaying speed at say 25mph. Then they would set the second tier at 35 so it would actually flash the speed past 35mph. The next tier is the red and blue lights. They would be set at say 45mph so any speed hit at 45 or above would trigger the red and blue lights. The final tier is the cut off speed. This is set so at or beyond a set speed, say 60, the trailer would no longer display anything. This is designed to prevent people from using it as a high score game. It DOES collect data for number of cars, speeds, times of speeding. That data is used to determine the best time for actual enforcement. It can also disprove a speeding complaint on a road. We get a lot of calls for speeding “OMG their gonna kill kids!” And the speed trailers will show that there isn’t a problem their at all. The speed trailers pictured in this article do not read tags or take pictures. Just data collection.

By: Rat

Rat — Wed, 26 May 2021 01:23:16 +0000

They had similar devices in New Jersey when I visited. If you went by speeding you got a ticket in the mail.. oh joy.

By: David

David — Wed, 26 May 2021 00:08:09 +0000

The real problem is tailgating, passing where it is not safe due to visibility or oncoming traffic, and distractions (phones, roadside signs, vehicles operating without daytime running lights, or without headlights after dusk or before dawn, and irregular lighting on vehicles). The tailgating problem won’t be fixed until vehicles start using onboard radar to warn drivers that they do not have sufficient safe stopping distance ahead. Have to give it to Kia there for making that standard on the Seltos.

By: Carlos McGugin

Carlos McGugin — Tue, 25 May 2021 21:44:05 +0000

Henry Coe, the metal sign is not mechanical. It is just a metal sign. It doesn’t collect any data. The only data is the speed of the vehicles that pass the trailer.

By: Susie

Susie — Tue, 25 May 2021 21:11:34 +0000

Need this on New Chemstrand rd. With Ensley st. and Johnson Ave. cut through, speeders all the time. Residential area.

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 25 May 2021 20:19:43 +0000

Kudos to the Sheriffs department. Please deploy one on 297 a . I hope the sheriffs office gets more funding for deputies . They need more manpower and we the citizens protection

By: Errrr

Errrr — Tue, 25 May 2021 19:02:28 +0000

Challenge accepted

By: Neighbor

Neighbor — Tue, 25 May 2021 18:27:01 +0000

Yes, the Sheriff Dept. put one on Denver Ave. It is ridiculous the speeders on that road. The speed checking trailer did NO good to be put there! I have not seen one officer pull anyone over and give them a ticket. The speed checker on Denver at the time would not register any vehicles doing over 45mph. One being a neighbor. He would drive as fast as he could to check his speed, when he would get over 45mph the speed checker would go blank. One of the kids in the neighborhood are going to be hit, severely injured or killed. I have also had speeders come right through my front yard. On two occasions the kids had just went in the house, if they had not came in when they did 10 minutes later they would have been killed. They also ran over my water meter the last time, busted it and I had to pay someone to fix it. ECUA would not fix it, since the damage was on my side of the meter. Idiots!!! they are either too high to care if they run over someone’s child, stupid or either really do not care. ESCO, please put a patrol car on Denver. These people just play with the speed checker because you have not been out there to catch them. So why should they care? Nothing will be done until one of them kills someone’s child. Then ESCO it will be to late. Praying for the children safety.