A website posting speed traps in the city doesn’t have Thunder Bay Police Service Sgt. Glenn Porter worried.
The National Speed Trap Exchange website posted several pages of supposed hot spots Thunder Bay police frequent in order to catch speeders.
One post listed Broadway Avenue as a potential speed trap because a “ghost car” usually parks in the area. Another post says the police hide behind the pine tree near the intersection of Rosslyn Road and 15th Side Road.
Porter said he wasn’t sure what a speed trap was but he said he didn’t mind the website giving out the locations of where police have been enforcing speed limits and would like to add to the list.
“There’s probably a dozen places that I personally would like to add to the list,” Porter said.
“There’s been a big change in the last couple of years. We’re talking about where we are doing the enforcement, we’ve had the media out and we’ve been trying to draw attention of the public to what we’re trying to do. Our methods are pretty well known. Anyone who watches the evening news they see us.”
But the website isn’t the only method to get information out.
While Thunder Bay tips haven’t been added to the site recently, Twitter has also been used to inform others where police are conducting RIDE checks.
Porter said their goal is to stop drivers from driving impaired and speeding and they support any help from the public if it accomplishes that goal.
“This isn’t a game this is serious business,” he said.
“The public pays us well to do this job well and it’s all about road safety. It’s not like it used to be where we stand out in the road and ask ‘hey have you been drinking.’ Quiet often we set it up so there are catch cars. Anybody who tries to turn off before they get to a RIDE program well there’s an extra police officer looking for that stuff.”
