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PROVO -- If you want to avoid a speeding or parking ticket in Provo, there are areas you might want to steer clear of around town.
Provo police Sgt. Dan Dove said the department has three full-time traffic enforcement officers, as well as five part-time employees enforcing parking restrictions.
Dove said one area that receives a lot of attention is Provo's Center Street for both speeding and parking.
"Center Street, I'm always worried there because it goes from 35 to 15 really fast," one motorist tells KSL.
The neighborhoods just south of the BYU campus are also a priority. Dove says there are crosswalks on nearly every corner, as well as students parking where they shouldn't.
One student walking along 700 North near campus said she wishes police would spend more time ticketing speeders. "I feel like I always see people going way too fast and being way too aggressive, and cops never catch those people."
A lot of parking tickets are also handed out just north of the Seven Peaks area where residents are issued permits to park along the streets.
Police also focus slowing down speeders along 4800 North in the River Bottoms as motorists come down the hill off of Orem's Center Street.
The BYU school newspaper analyzed tickets handed out over a six month period. To read what they discovered, CLICK HERE.
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