Drivers in Fort Collins Need to Look Out for These Mobile Speed Radars

Speeding in Fort Collins, Colorado, has a new foe: Speed radar cameras the police can move all around The Choice City.

Fort Collins Introduces Transportable Speed Radar Units

They sure don't look like the "usual" radar cameras that you'll find in Colorado, but that doesn't mean that you won't get a ticket. Also, don't think if you get a ticket in the mail that it doesn't count, because it does.

These "units" as Fort Collins Police Services is calling them look like, to me, odd mailboxes. These won't be helping you mail a letter to your Aunt Linda, however. They're meant to not only collect ticket fines, but to get driver to "just slow down."

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I used to live in Fort Collins for 15 years; it always seemed like people were speeding everywhere, and as I drive though the city these days, it's still the same. Whether it's on Harmony, Mulberry, Taft Hill, Shields, Prospect, etc., people are just in a hurry. More people getting "popped" for speeding might help that.

You Can Still Speed and Not Get Busted by Fort Collins' New Cameras

On the bright side, if you speed "a little" you're going to be O.K. It turns out that these transportable speed radar cameras only issue a citation if you're going at least 11 miles per hour over the speed limit. Going "40 in a 30" is fine, going "42 in a 30" is going to be a problem.

Of course, many people are not happy about the new cameras posting on Fort Collins Police Services' Facebook Page:

This is the stupidest thing..

Can't wait to see how long it takes before one gets pushed over..

Spray paint exists...

Why did we approve a 300 million dollar budget increase for officer salaries if you’re just going to use cameras instead?

I did not sign up to live in a surveillance state...