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Saw a Garrett patrol car sitting on I45 north bound just south of Palmer and north of Ennis. In many, many sojourns to and from DFW I've never seen that one.

Drove back from Grand Prairies yesterday and missed the Houston exit on I20 so we drove on to Dowdy Ferry Rd and took it south back toward I45. As I saw the I-45 overpass ahead I noticed Hutchin's finest parked on the left side of the road. Probably catches a lot of folks coming around from the feeder a little too fast as they take a short cut to I-20 East I didn't see Plamer or Ferris PD on I45 but did see a DPS near Palmer NB.

schufflerbot wrote:sounds like a well trained, experienced ticket machine.

glad he was professional and didn't hassle you for being human.

I just went through the area an hour ago traveling to Grand Prairie. I noticed there are no speed limit signs after I saw the sign for Palmer on I45 N. (at least I didn't see any) We come up many times a year to see our oldest daughter, so next time I am coming NB I'm going to check where the signs are. I think there is a 65 MPH sign before you get to Palmer. I wasn't paying a lot of attention because there was an overturned 18 wheeler in Ennis that had north bound traffic backed up for miles and diverted to the frontage road. After we got back on I45 I saw Palmer had someone stopped on SB side and then Ferris patrol was perched on the feeder high above the hiway. I made sure I stayed at the limit.

One of the more notorious speed ntraps along that corridor. Palmer -Ferris -Wilmer. They probably all generate most of there income with tickets. I wish there was a way to challenge speed limits and reductions arbitrarily based on nothing more than revenue generation.