The most notorious ticket trap in Dallas comes to an end

Highways where DPS troopers are waiting to hand out tickets

We asked our readers to tell us the worst speed traps they've encountered in the Lone Star State. Here's what they reported back. Highways where DPS troopers are waiting to hand out tickets

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One of the most successful ticket traps in Texas disappeared Friday.

A ticket trap at a school bus stop in Dallas fined drivers more than a half-million dollars in fines since Nov. 2012, the Dallas Morning News reported. Almost 3,000 people received fines worth $300 a piece, with a quarter million dollars still remaining in unpaid penalties.

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Here’s how the trap worked. School buses would drop off and pick up students along Harry Hines Boulevard, a busy street that’s “six lanes, one way, on a divided highway.” That made the perfect situation for a ticket ploy, wrote the Morning News:

Drivers are jockeying for position. Not everybody notices a stopped school bus in the far right lane across six lanes of traffic.

Often enough, a dozen vehicles pull past a stopped bus. Each gets videotaped by a camera mounted on the side of a bus. Drivers receive a $300 ticket in the mail.

Dallas County Schools and the city hall long knew about the trick. But only recently did officials solve the issue by convincing an apartment complex owned by the Dallas Housing Authority to let the school use its parking lot.

One speed trap down in the Lone Star State. Many others remain. See the gallery above for the worst speed traps in Texas.