Shawnee, KS, tries innovative program to curb speeding

Shawnee, Kansas, recently announced an innovative program to help identify and control speeding problems on neighborhood streets. The city will issue radar guns to a pair of citizens, who will use the radar to monitor vehicle speeds on neighborhood streets for a two-week period. The pair will monitor vehicle speeds from a parked car at the location of their choice. One person will operate the radar gun while the other will record speed, time, and information about the vehicle.

Citizens will not give tickets or fines or confront speeders, but the city will send letters to motorists identified as exceeding the speed limit by ten miles per hour or more.

Cities across the country have used this idea to monitor and curb speeding in neighborhoods, but this is the first time it has been tried in the Kansas City area.

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