Police: Slow Down on Newly Paved Roads

For the last few months, traveling on Butler Street through Easton's West Ward has meant a bumpy drive.

Pretty soon that work will be over, and city police want to remind drivers to try to slow down once Butler -- and other streets being repaired -- are freshly repaved.

"People won’t realize how fast they'll be going because it’ll be so smooth," Police Chief Larry Palmer told city council public safety committee Tuesday night.

"Certainly, the first couple of weeks, you’re going to see excessive speeding on Butler Street…Berwick Street, maybe even Lincoln and Cattell," Mayor Sal Panto said.

To that end, Palmer said police are using something called the Enradd System, or "Electronic Non-Radar Device."

Local police are forbidden from using radar in Pennsylvania. With Enradd, a device projects beams of invisible light. When a vehicle passes through those beams, the device calculates its speed.

Palmer said the city could see an increase in speeding citations, but said that's not the department's goal.

"We don't want to give them tickets, we want them to slow down," he said.