"IT IS WHAT IT IS" or is it? Speed Traps

Most everyone has heard about Shenandoah's "speed trap" on Research Forest Drive near I45 and for those who got tickets, well the speed limit "is what it is".... Or is it? Maybe the same thing happening in Shenandoah is also happening in The Woodlands on Gosling Road and Lake Woodlands?
Drive safe and always "Trust, But Verify"
Those who travel Gosling Road, oddly posted at 35MPH, may have noticed that there is often a Sheriff Officer killing the grass in the median between Lake Woodlands Drive and Shadowbend Place. Actually, I know at least 310 people noticed the car between 9-1-2007 and 6-1-2008. 310 is the number of speeding tickets issued on Gosling Road through the Texas Traffic Safety Program Grant Agreement (Program). The Program is an agreement between the State of Texas and County Judge Alan B. Sadler's Office. The purpose of the Program is to help fund safety in Montgomery County by refunding expenditures to write tickets for Speeding, Click It or Ticket, and DWI's. Is the Program working as designed? I bet the 1093 people who got speeding tickets on Lake Woodlands Drive (also 35MPH) don't think it's working. Most complaints of the Lake Woodlands "speed trap" state they got tickets around the Northshore Park area. The Sheriffs Office could very easily catch speeders on Research Forest in The Woodlands, but Research Forest is not part of the Program. In fact, it's so easy to catch speeders in the Program's boundaries on Lake Woodlands Drive and Gosling Road that the Sheriff's office only issued 119 tickets for the same time period on the entire stretch of Woodlands Parkway.
Why is this a problem? Simple. At times the Sheriff's office is looking for revenue rather than working greater areas of concern. We've all heard a million times how dangerous our intersections are so why aren't there Sheriff Officers sitting at The Woodlands intersections catching red light runners? They won't do that since Commissioner Ed Chance wouldn't be able to make the easy money with his red light cameras. The Program will reimburse up to a certain amount of money that it cost to patrol the 18 speed traps in Montgomery county. The enforcement time period for the 18 speed traps is 5AM to Midnight.... wink wink. Listen to the scanners on The Montgomery County Monitor site and you will hear talk of sending cars to Speed zones 1-18. CATW guesses they are never under the allowed budget.
So not only does Montgomery County get a free ride with some expenses (which is good if the Program wasn't a speed trap), but they got revenue from 5399 speeding tickets in the 18 speed zones from 9-1-2007 to 6-1-2008.
The stats for DWI and Click It or Ticket seem very low. We are hoping that is because people are not drinking and driving and people are also wearing their seat belts.