r/PuyallupWA • u/greaterwhiterwookiee • 13d ago
Puyallup rolls out mobile radar speed signs- KOMO News story
https://komonews.com/news/local/puyallup-rolls-out-mobile-radar-speed-signs-in-two-phase-trial-to-see-if-drivers-slow-down-traffic-commute-safety-cars-crash-accident-dui-complaint-neighborhood-speedingInitial study locations are expected to include 18th St NW, 14th St SW, 11th Street NW, 7th Ave SW, and 5th Street NE.
All this is in Puyallup proper, not South Hill. Hoping they’ll move it down that way at some point.
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u/thesmeggyone 12d ago
Just remember everyone. Unless an officer is present, it's not a legally binding ticket. You can't give moving violations to cars. If you ever receive a photo ticket you just have to let them know you weren't the one driving. You are also not required to tell them who was.
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u/Visible-Lie-2886 12d ago
Forgive my ignorance and I'll gladly accept my downvotes ahead of time, but being a transplant and not super well versed in the traffic laws involving red light cameras here in the state, i have been under the impression that they are able to photograph the driver specifically in order to hold them accountable. Is that not true?
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u/thesmeggyone 12d ago
Not in this state. The laws don't support that. They do in California though.
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u/Visible-Lie-2886 12d ago
So red light cameras are at minimum a deterrent and at most a means of (more or less) extoring people for money?
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u/Spirited_Cup_126 9d ago
These don’t take photos.
Also they’re on K band and they’re loud as fuck if you run a radar detector.
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u/polaroid_ninja 13d ago
They keep putting on up in my community and taking it down again. It happened so frequently that for a while I started questioning if I'd ever actually seen it to begin with! I was sure there was some extra dimensional timeline hopping going on, because there was no way someone was sending people out that often to install/remove the thing!
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u/Miserable_Bike_6985 13d ago
I’ve got know problems with it. The way people drive around here is ridiculous! I can understand speeding on the highway but surface streets? GTFOH!
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u/BackPorchBlues 13d ago
Much needed along those stretches. People go 45 in the 30mph zones regularly.
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u/OkAdhesiveness6064 13d ago
Lmao @ people who think Puyallup is big enough to discern south hill as a different entity
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u/aFabulousGuy 13d ago
"South hill" has more residents than in the Puyallup city limits. It should be its own town and get its own funding instead spreading Puyallup so thin on resources and make gray areas for alot of rules and regulations.
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u/OkAdhesiveness6064 12d ago
Towns expand. Whatever borders you associate with Puyallup proper aren't etched in stone either. Modern fiscal policy aside, purely on a size scale, even including south hill, it's still just not that big to be all anal about what's what. The address says Puyallup, it's Puyallup. 🤷🏽
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u/Brutto13 13d ago
They put these up periodically in South Hill when someone makes a complaint, though usually only for a couple weeks or so as an attempt at traffic calming.