Catching Speeders in the Corridor is Now a Fully Funded Service
This is a press release from the Eureka Police Department:
In October 2018, the Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG) and the Eureka Police Department/City of Eureka executed an agreement for supplemental patrols on the 101 Eureka-Arcata Safety Corridor to improve safety and reduce collisions. These patrols are fully-funded through HCAOG on a voluntary officer overtime basis which does not impact everyday police services in the City. The following are the Eureka Police Department Safety Corridor statistics for the first year of our agreement (Nov 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019).
Totals:
Traffic Stops: 1468
Citations: 723
Arrests: 47Top offender speeds by month / Driver residence:
Nov: 4 vehicles at 70 mph (Hoopa, Santa Barbara, (2) Arcata)
Dec: 82 (Arcata) 81 (McK) 78 (Arcata) 72 (Blue Lake)
Jan: 78 (Arcata)
Feb: 82 (Brentwood)
Mar: 88 (Arcata)
Apr: 79 (Eureka)
May: 75 (McK)
Jun: 82 (Eureka)
Jul: 73 (Murrieta) 72 (Arcata)
Aug: 79 (Arcata) 76 (Chula Vista) 76 (person who lives in the Safety Corridor)
Sept: (No overtime conducted in corridor due to OTS grant completion requirements)
Oct: 74 (Fortuna) 71 (Eureka) 71 (Arcata)Dive safely!
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person who lives IN the safety corridor?
there’s a mobile home park in the corridor
Very happy to see the increased enforcement!
How about he people who stay going 50 mph from the end of the safety corridor all the way to Arcata? Is it illegal to drive 15mph under the speed limit, on a clear day with no hazardous conditions? I feel it causes a dangerous condition where one lane is going 70mph and the other is going 47 mph.
I understand that it is more fuel efficient.
It is not legal to drive 50, your will be stopped and cited.
There is no actual minimum speed in california. It is quite vague
22400.
(a) No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, because of a grade, or in compliance with law.
Bear, it is time for your to read the DMV California Driver’s Handbook! Call CHP and they will give you the answer.
Martin, I just reviewed the Drivers handbook ! There is no mention of a minimum speed. In fact they use similar language as above. From page 37
“Speed Limits
California’s “Basic Speed Law” means that you may never drive faster
than is safe for current conditions.
Regardless of the posted speed limit, your speed should depend on:
• The number and speed of other vehicles on the road.
• Whether the road surface is smooth, rough, graveled, wet, dry, wide,
or narrow.
• Bicyclists or pedestrians on or crossing the roadway.
• Whether it is raining, foggy, snowing, windy, or dusty.
Note: Unless otherwise posted, the maximum speed limit is 55 mph on a
two-lane undivided highway and for vehicles towing trailers.
Reduced Speeds
Heavy Traffic or Bad Weather
You must drive slower when there is heavy traffic or bad weather.
However, if you block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic by
driving too slowly, you may be cited. If you choose to drive slower than
other traffic, do not drive in the “Number 1 Lane” (fast lane) (refer to the
“Choosing a Lane” section on page 47). When another driver is close
behind you and wishes to drive faster, you should move to the right. “
oh so you’re probably one of the people trying to do 80 in the right lane right after the bayside cutoff before the corridor actually ends? its like a half mile between there and arcata, you can surely handle someone doing 50 those last 3000 feet.
So Eureka PD can’t keep junkies from shooting up in city parks or slow down home burglaries but the have time to go outside of city limits to write traffic tickets? That is bullshit.
Yup, no money in busting junkies, but if you drive and are licensed, it is assumed by law enforcement that you will pay your fine
Junkies don’t cause car accidents.
Unless they are behind the wheel.
Unless they zombie j-walk into your hood or shoot out in traffic on the stolen bmx bike
You did read that this is separately funded and is on a voluntary overtime basis?
Yeah, um voluntarily get paid to work time and half to pull over speeders outside the city limits. How about voluntarily do your job in the city to clean it up
Write a check to the city to cover the overtime and maybe they will.
I do and so does every home owner in eureka who pays property taxes.
So, how many drunk drivers did you get off the road? How many people poking at their cell phones? I don’t care that people are in a hurry. I care that they’re impaired or distracted.
They’re usually “in a hurry” while they’re distracted by their cell phones. So it’s even more dangerous than simply the distraction while driving at a safe speed. Funny, you sure seem concerned about not being legally able to speed and endanger so many others on our roadways, maybe lay off the “coffee”.
Nothing worse than people who drive like meth addicts late for a deal, or people who aren’t even on meth but still drive like they are. And then trying to justify it, like it’s their absolute right to endanger everyone else on the road because they’re in a hurry, but certainly not on their way to an actual life or death emergency. Take the EVOC (emergency vehicle operators course) and learn that no matter how much you speed, even when you can change the stop lights from red to green because you’re in an emergency vehicle, you save about 78 SECONDS. Is 78 seconds worth the lives you’re endangering? What exactly are you late for, dude?
It is proven that slow poke drivers are the cause of more crashes than speeder. Maybe if you are so old that 70mph is to fast for you. You should do the world a favor and turn in your dL.
I’ve never seen this proven. I’ve seen speed differential between cars being blamed but that does not mean the slow car was the cause
“Safety Corridor” is bullshit.
Only the weak can’t manage highway speeds. Get off my road.
Taxpayer funded greedy cop feeding frenzy.
It was much safer before all the safety crap and 65mph…
Just block the access off and force them on to eka arc road and keep the freeway moving.
You give me the impression of your not driving that section of roadway before it became the “corridor”, and I’m willing to bet that more people died in the last year of the non corridor setting, than in all the years of the corridor being implemented.
Plus, it’s much easier now to merge with 50 mph right lane traffic, than when traffic was doing 60 to 70 plus in the right line.
Dive safely? Do you mean watch out for sharks?
Thanks.
Good, especiallyb now with the holidays coming up, will keep the drunks off the road.
Will save a life.
Speeders should have a place to go aside from the safety corridor like school zones are hospitals be safe that’s not meth that’s rat poison
Great! Now if they could do something about the speeders passing on Old Arcata/ Myrtle.