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QUESTION: If you were a cop in Contra Costa County, where do you think would be the best place to park to catch reckless drivers/speeders/etc.? (what road, intersection?)
Talk about it….
Anywhere on Treat.
Couldn’t agree more with that answer. Treat at Cowell at 7am you can write 100s of tickets for the speeders and red light runners. Treat Blvd is like a highway at times.
Treat is like Fremont Drag Strip between Bancroft and Oak Grove, especially at night.
… anf red light runners…. intersection of Oak Grove & YVR
Red light runners, pretty much anywhere that has red lights it seems. I see them every day, pretty much. And my commute to work is 15 minutes, most of it on Contra Costa Blvd. Day off I shop downtown Concord, Willow Pass, Trader Joe’s.
Outside a bar at closing time….easy pickins.
Clayton Road!
If i were a cop to catch reckless drivers i might park my car at a hotel so i can get some sleep and let the speed detector and camera do the work.
First off would sit down with Clayton PD officers, ask about their methods and criteria. If you are missing front license plate or have expired tags you will be having a get together with a Clayton PD officer.
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Concord motor officers sit with radar at Ygnacio Valley Road at Crystal Ranch Road and Pittsburg motor officers on Kirker Pass just past Nortinville Road, business is so good there are times they don’t turn their motorcycles off. CHP occasionally sits at bottom of Kirker Pass on Pittsburg side.
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Cities should add motor officers with radar.
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As for best places, any high traffic road.
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Question is which departments have dedicated officers for vehicle code infractions and given volume of calls beat officers have, do they have time to cite traffic violations ? ?
In front of Concord high School.
I recommend CHP us drones over the highways. Catch all those speeding as they switch lanes left and right. Hit them with a reckless driving ticket.
I drive on the right and pass on the left. To you it looks like weaving, especially when I pass the slow poke violating VC 21650 in the left lane.
In front of the Police Station.
There’s not a street in this town that doesn’t have a plethora of reckless and speeding drivers
I’d park smack dab in the middle of my grandmother’s living room, because as soon as these little pests get nested, she’d give them the warm welcome with a book.
I’d probably leave them alone
and try and catch actual criminals.
I can’t help but wonder how many are “one in the same”?
Hwy 4, 242, and 680.
reckless drivers? I see a fair amount of failure to stop at stop signs in many neighborhoods. There are “shortcuts” to avoid lights and a fair percentage speed down these streets and ignore the signs. As far as speeders, on the neighborhood streets; certainly not on empty freeways (like on 4, where I was nailed for speeding….)
Crystal Ave Crescent Drive cars coming from freeway towards hospital. Blind intersection, no stop sign, people driving extremely fast & cant see around corner. All residential there. I walk dogs, people have kids playing nearby. It need some police ticketing but really needs a stop sign & slow down to 15Mph sign. https://www.google.com/maps/place/2369+Crystal+Ave,+Concord,+CA+94520/@37.9863617,-122.0377573,19.2z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8085671fcb95cd79:0xec4784b5f6485ebe!8m2!3d37.9863648!4d-122.0371756!16s%2Fg%2F11c4f1h5d4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Fewer reckless drivers means more wreckless drivers!
David Avenue at after 3 pm.
Anywhere on Olivera. Especially at the stop sign at Olivera and Esperanza.
The police should first abide by the same laws that they enforce on the public.