Radar Sign Targets Speeders on East Side
A radar sign will boost efforts to slow speeding east-side drivers, who use the neighborhood’s streets as alternatives to congested Newport Boulevard.
The Automobile Club of Southern California lent the radar board to police through May 30. Earlier this week , the board was posted on East 19th Street, but the location will change regularly, Traffic Officer Eric Reinholtz said.
East-side residents have been working with the city to have the neighborhood’s posted 25-mph speed limit enforced. Other signs warn drivers to “Slow Down.”
Using radar, the sign tracks an approaching car--or groups of cars--and displays their speed. The legal limit is posted on the sign.
The machine does not photograph cars and license places for tickets, but police say it does serve its purpose.
“For the most part, 90% of the people who see it will slow down,” Reinholtz said. “Occasionally, an officer will be close by, to maybe work radar or something. We can’t write a ticket on what that radar trailer says. It isn’t calibrated.”
The auto club has lent the device to Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, and Los Angeles and San Diego counties through an accident-prevention program.
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