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Garden Grove, pop. 171,000, is 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Some of Garden Grove's tickets can be ignored. If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is what I call a "Fake Ticket." For more details, see the Fake Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly tabulations of citations actually issued.
( ) indicates a footnote.
(1) Totals are as provided by the City.
(2) YTD = Year-to-date.
(3) Not in operation due to construction.
(4) Jan. 2004 counts are incomplete. 2003 counts have been requested.
(5) Enforcement on right and left turns has been indicated, when known. However, the absence of a "Rt" or "Left" indication does not necessarily mean that there is no enforcement on turns at that intersection.
(6) Until Nov. 13, 2004 I had the Intersection Name headings for these two columns transposed.
(7) Until Nov. 13, 2004 I had the Intersection Name headings for these two columns transposed.
(8) The compass direction of enforcement, and/or the movement ("thru," "right," "left") noted here may be incorrect. See GG Ticket Counts - Errata.

Garden Grove Docs Set # 2
Signal Timing Charts

From Oct. 14, 2004 to Nov. 13, 2004 I had the following statement posted here: "In Garden Grove, the yellows for left turns are set at the same length as the yellows for straight ahead movements." That statement, while technically correct, was misleading. A re-examination of the timing charts I received in mid-October shows that while at that time all "existing" left-yellows were 4.0 or 4.3, the same as the "existing" yellows for the straight-ahead movements, as of Jan. 1, 2004 all the left-yellows were 3.0 seconds. The ticket counts in the table above reveal a dramatic drop after May, so that probably is when the left-yellows were lengthened. If you are going to trial on a pre-June left-turn ticket, you should definitely ask the officer what the left-yellow was set at when you were ticketed, what it's set at now, and when it was changed. Since there's no clear law saying that left-yellows must be 4.0-seconds long, be prepared to talk to the judge and convince him that to be fair, he should let you go. See the second part of Defect # 2 on the Home page.
Also, the same re-examination of the timing charts revealed that the yellows for all through movements at Brookhurst / Chapman were increased, from 4.0 up to 4.3, sometime between Jan. 1 and Oct. 12. The 4.3-second setting is the minimum required in a 45-mph zone, which Brookhurst near Chapman is. If you are going to trial on a ticket where you were driving on Brookhurst at Chapman or Westminster (before making any turn), you should definitely ask the officer what the yellow was set at when you were ticketed, what it's set at now, and when it was changed. See Defect # 2 on the Home page.
I am now requesting timing charts that should reveal the date when the 4.0 to 4.3 change was made at Brookhurst / Chapman, and what the settings are and were at Brookhurst / Westminster.
To see all the timing charts I received, go to Timing Charts - Garden Grove Docs.

Garden Grove Docs Set # 3
Non-Compliant Signs Replaced

Until late Summer 2006, the warning signs at some Garden Grove intersections were much smaller than the required warning signs (see Defect # 4), didn't carry the required symbol or language, or were placed on the far side of the intersection instead of in advance.
Now the City has replaced them with the proper signs.