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Originally Posted by tomwed
Can you explain the added dangers for bikers and walkers?
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Golf carts may hesitate to cross the center line and try to squeeze by a walker or bicyclist, especially if a cart is coming in the opposite direction. This happens quite often now to bicyclists on narrow roads when cars try to squeeze by. That is why bike groups have to "take the lane" on narrow multi lane roads such as Morse and Buena Vista as there is not enough room for a car and a bicycle. They may hit the bicyclist, jogger, or walker. Golf carts may also do more tight maneuvers. They might stay in their lane as long as possible and go around a walker, jogger, or bicyclist at the last moment and then return to their lane too quickly after they think they have cleared the slower moving people. Cars do this all the time on highways when they pass other cars or trucks. They pull back into the lane too soon after passing.
Let's face it, joggers, walkers, and bicyclists are already low men on the totem pole and if they put all these lines on the paths it will become more obvious who these paths are for.