First save along I-280?

[awj223]

That spot is one of the hottest spots for LIDAR on I-280. They usually tag you about a 1/2 mile prior to that particular spot, in the curve leading toward the Vista Point exit. If you pull up the map and look up the hill to the right, it is a Vista Point, and they can hide there easily. They have been known to shoot rear LIDAR from there, though they usually do a frontal shot so as to time it so they are merging into traffic as you pass. That spot is also used by CHP as a LIDAR training location. If you were painted in that exact spot in the map, then they were probably just screwing around with the gear, as it would be a nearly 90-degree off axis shot, and way up the hill. But it was almost certainly CHP, as that very spot is THE most common shoot location - so much so I always visually check as I approach there.

I have also seen them running C/O radar from cars just sitting on the ramp - from the rear.

It could have been slightly before that point on the freeway. I don't remember EXACTLY where I got the alert, but I do know it was from the front (red LED from the ALP). I was just surprised because I looked all around, and I couldn't find the LEO. I forgot about those ramps, even though I've driven past them many times, because that vista point is always closed, and I've never been up there. OT: do you know WHY that particular vista point is always closed?

[Clint Eastwood]

It could have been slightly before that point on the freeway. I don't remember EXACTLY where I got the alert, but I do know it was from the front (red LED from the ALP). I was just surprised because I looked all around, and I couldn't find the LEO. I forgot about those ramps, even though I've driven past them many times, because that vista point is always closed, and I've never been up there. OT: do you know WHY that particular vista point is always closed?

Most of the time it is a CHP moto cop. You can see them sitting on top shooting down onto traffic head-on. A really good hiding spot, but I always do a visual scan when that area comes into view. They are easier to spot once that grass turns yellow - as it may be doing now. The dark green makes it a bit harder to make them out.

CHP uses that vista point for obvious reasons. I think the maintenance costs closed some of them state wide. There are several in close proximity and they chose to close some..... I think there is an open one right after Edgewood, a mile or so before that other one.