Fairfield Traffic Ticket Lawyer

Fairfield, Connecticut

Fairfield is one of the oldest towns in Connecticut, founded in 1639 by Roger Ludlow, the framer of the colony’s Fundamental Orders, on land long held by the Paugussett Algonquian bands — the Unquowa, Sasqua, Aspetuck, and Pequonnock — who farmed and fished along the Sound. The town that grew there became prosperous enough to make it a target during the Revolution: in July 1779 some two thousand British troops stormed Fairfield Beach and burned the town to the ground as punishment for its patriotism. Fairfield rebuilt, and the green and old burying ground at its center still mark the colonial town.

Today Fairfield is a large, affluent shoreline community on the Gold Coast, sharing a border with the city of Bridgeport but keeping a distinctly residential, town-meeting character. Its five miles of Long Island Sound coastline include several town beaches, and the water defines much of its life. The town is really a collection of distinct sections: the historic harbor village of Southport, with its Federal and Greek Revival captains’ houses and yacht clubs; the rolling, wooded estates of Greenfield Hill, famous for the dogwoods that bloom each spring and the festival built around them; and the busy neighborhoods nearer the beaches and the rail line.

Fairfield is also a college town, an unusual thing for a shoreline suburb. Both Fairfield University, the Jesuit institution on the town’s northern side, and Sacred Heart University call Fairfield home, and together they enroll well over seventeen thousand students, bringing a steady population of young drivers, game-day crowds, and academic-year traffic to the town’s roads.

Those roads are among the busiest in the state. Interstate 95 and the Post Road, U.S. Route 1, run parallel through the heart of town, the Merritt Parkway sweeps across the wooded northern section, and Black Rock Turnpike anchors a major commercial strip. Between the commuters, the beachgoers, and the students, these corridors see constant traffic and steady enforcement, and citations are common along them. We follow these roads and the equipment used along them, which is generally where the violations described below begin.