transportation
Rules of the Road
Easy places to get a traffic ticket
S
peeding and
other traffic
violations mean
big money in
Bergen County.
Municipal
courts in
Bergen County
handle more than 250,000
tickets annually for moving
violations and driving under
the influence. These figures
don’t even include state police
tickets issued on the Bergen
County portions of Route 80
and 95. ■
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Englewood Cliffs had one location – thanks to a red
light camera – that issued substantial revenues for the
borough each year it was in operation. The state legislature banned such cameras from issuing tickets, which will
mean a big loss in revenues for some towns. But many
other hot spots remain:
EMERSON ■ The portion of Main Street starting
on Old Hook Road and ending at Kinderkamack Road
(between Shop Rite and Boston Market) is a popular
cut-through road. The speed limit is always 25 mph even
outside the school zone, but many people routinely go
above that – and get caught.
FORT LEE through ALPINE ■ Parkway police are on
the lookout for speeders and DWIs coming in from New
York City on Palisades Interstate Parkway, starting at the
George Washington Bridge toll plaza and heading north.
HARRINGTON PARK ■ The winding stretch of Old
Hook Road leading into Westwood is a favorite place for
police to catch speeders. Drivers just seem to like to go
fast on this curvy scenic path west of the reservoir.
LEONIA ■ Leonia police are on the lookout for
drivers who fail to come to a complete stop at the stop
sign when entering Broad Avenue from the I-95 exit.
Some police hide on the overpass so you can’t see them
until after you have run through the stop sign.
LODI ■ At the Baldwin Avenue entrance to Route 46,
both local and county police sit at the BP Station and
hand out tickets to drivers who roll through the stop
sign while looking back to see if they can merge into
the highway.
MONTVALE ■ Grand Avenue, traveling through
Montvale and bordering Park Ridge, is a common cutthrough to the Garden State Parkway. Both Montvale
and Park Ridge police are frequently on the lookout for
speeders.
NORWOOD ■ When Knickerbocker Road, heading
north from Closter, changes to Livingston Street, so does
the speed limit – from 40 to 25 mph after the traffic light
at Blanch Avenue. Motorists often fail to slow down and
tickets follow.
ORADELL ■ Kinderkamack Road, leading into
Emerson, becomes two lanes. Motorists often speed up
thinking two lanes means a higher speed limit but the
speed limit is still the same at 25 mph.
PARAMUS ■ Paramus Road from Route 4 and past
Bergen Community College is an occasional ticket hot
spot.
RIVER EDGE ■ Be careful near a stretch of busy Route
4 westbound between Grand Avenue and Main Street,
near the borough’s bus shelter.
ELIZABETH LARA
OBEY THE LAW
Some places in Bergen County are hot spots for traffic
tickets. Here, a Bergen County police officer pulls a motorist
over for a moving violation along Route 4 in River Edge.