Los Angeles County : Radar Crackdown on Bikers
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In an effort to slow weekend motorcyclists who hold timed races down twisting Mulholland Highway west of Malibu Lake, county supervisors have asked two law enforcement agencies to increase radar patrols.
Extra surveillance by the California Highway Patrol and the Sheriff’s Department is expected to begin soon, county officials said.
The supervisors on Tuesday also authorized a Public Works Department radar survey of speeds reached by the sleek, high-powered motorcycles, which regularly draw crowds on Sundays and that have been involved in numerous accidents, a spokesman for Supervisor Mike Antonovich said.
A similar problem existed on Kanan Dume Road and Angeles Crest Highway before extra radar patrols were added, spokesman Dawson Oppenheimer said.
“Conventional law enforcement does not do the job out there,” he said. “The only way to apprehend them is through radar enforcement where someone upstream can alert someone downstream that they are coming.”
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