FORT WORTH -- The Chisholm Trail Parkway may stretch more than 27 miles, but it's the slice of the road in Fort Worth and Tarrant County that is primarily costing drivers hundreds of thousands of dollars in speeding citations.
Around 4,200 speeding citations have been issued on the Tarrant County portion of the parkway since the North Texas Tollway Authority opened it in May of 2014, according to Department of Public Safety data requested by WFAA.
The majority of the tickets occur on a nine-mile stretch closer to downtown Fort Worth, where many drivers are still stunned to find posted speeds of only 50 or 60 miles per hour on a major tollway.
"I drive it all the time, and still can't believe it," said Jason Millen, who was nailed more than a year ago for going 67 in a 50 zone.
He uses the Chisholm for his daily commute to work in downtown because it's far quicker than nearby Bryant Irvin Road or South Hulen Street.
"I hit cruise control [now] because I don't want my insurance going up, but people cruise past me all the time," Millen said.
The tickets are bringing in substantial fines.
The NTTA contracts with DPS to patrol the road, but ticket revenue is divvied up between the state and the county.
The justice of the peace's office for Tarrant County Precinct 6 handles almost all of the tickets.
The office says costs usually break down with at least $100 in court costs, and then almost $5 for each mile per hour over the posted speed.
The DPS data requested by News 8 didn't include ticket fine amounts, but it does show that nearly every ticket issued was at least 10 miles over the posted speed.
By that tally, a ticket would cost at least $150. That figure multiplied by approximately 4,200 tickets comes out to $630,000 worth of citations.
The estimate is probably low, as many violators are ticketed for speeding 15, 20, or even 30 miles over the posted speed, which could mean a far higher fine.
Fort Worth City Councilman Jungus Jordan represents much of the area that the Chisholm extends through.
He hears about tickets all the time.
"The comments I hear, 'We love the road -- when are you going to raise the speed limit?' and 'Why are those DPS guys out there?'" Jordan said.
He says the city dictated the lower speeds before the parkway opened because there were noise and safety concerns as the road inched closer to downtown and some residential neighborhoods.
But he says the entire council will take a hard look at raising the limit -- and quickly -- once a NTTA speed study is finished in the next couple of months.
"I think we need to be understanding that the road really is built for a faster speed," he said.
Local realtor Sandy Finklestein, who lives near the parkway, says the general consensus from the get go has been 50 miles per house was noticeably low.
"A noise abatement? Keeping the noise out with a 50 instead of 70 mph [limit]? I'm not sure I really buy into that theory," he said.
The NTTA says daily traffic on the road is up to about 30,000 cars.
DPS Sergeant Lonny Haschel says his troopers are merely enforcing all rules of the road on an area they're contracted to do so.
"They're out looking for everything. We don't target one specific violation," he said.
Fort Worth police occasionally patrol the road, too, but a department spokesman said they primarily leave enforcement up to DPS.
Aside from the tickets actually written, DPS has issued at least twice as many warnings during the same time period.
Drivers like Millen say they don't fault troopers for doing their job.
They just want the limits raised.