I don't see the relationship between an experimental scientific study and the county traffic statutes. The law is the law whether The Villages agrees with it or not. If you have a 10mph speed LIMIT on county roads in your neighborhood, you can be given a citation for violating it. Safety is an ideal, but limits are based on such safety ideal. The thread is about speeding in the village neighborhoods. Whether you are in a golf car, motorcycle or car, if you are speeding then you are deemed in violation of the law. What's so difficult with that? Just because you think that you can drive better than someone else makes little difference.
Some of you believe that running stop signs is a fact of life and reasonable. Not part of this thread but it's been brought up. I don't see it that way. Violating stop signs is probably one of the most dangerous actions perpetrated in the villages. Stop signs are not a suggestion. It's the law that you come to a complete stop, not speed up like I have seen many do. Speeding on Buena Vista may not be very dangerous, but speeding in neighborhoods is very dangerous. Violating stop signs is always a dangerous practice.
You don't need a study regarding traffic laws. They are here and we aren't going to change them.
If you wish to do a study, do a study regarding seatbelts in golf carts and why they might be necessary because some folks don't know how to drive and end up throwing their passengers out when they run into a curb.
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