IUPUI Police to Launch Traffic Enforcement Campaign

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) police are issuing a warning to traffic scofflaws: enough is enough.

IUPUI police will begin a selective traffic enforcement campaign, beginning Monday, March 27, 2006.

The purpose of the campaign, said Capt. Bill Abston, is to stop someone from being hurt or killed.

“We don’t want to write tickets that will cost motorists $150,” Abston said. “That’s why we are giving everyone fair warning they can avoid a ticket simply by obeying traffic laws.”

With major construction underway at IUPUI, including the construction of the Campus Center at University Boulevard and Michigan Street, police have watched a surge in speeding, turning right or left from the middle lane of Michigan Street, and failure to stop at stop signs.

“We have had numerous complaints from our community and we are acting on them,” Abston said.

IUPUI police have issued some tickets and warnings, but that didn’t stem the volume of infractions, Abston said. “The stepped up traffic enforcement will assign officers to selective sites where all those who speed, ignore stop signs, make improper turns from Michigan Street, or break other traffic laws will be stopped and ticketed.”