[Talk Host]

One of my business partners is visiting here from Rhode Island. This morning, we were walking down Legacy Lane just below the Chatham recreation center. We were walking in the golf cart lane, facing oncoming traffic. As a cart, with two men approached, I stepped behind my partner in order to go single file to allow them to pass more easily.

They came all the way up to our legs and stopped. (not the slightest effort to divert around us) They then said, "you have to step out of the lane and onto the grass to let us pass. We called the sheriff and they told us that golf carts are not allowed to cross the white line out into the regular traffic lane." Of course, my response was that they got incorrect information. They were insistant that they got this from the sheriff's office.

I hope they had incorrect information. The sheriff's instructions for turning left are to blend into traffic and make the left. That would be pretty hard to do without cross the white line. Also, state law mandates that walkers face traffic.

These two guys have a daunting task ahead of them, educating every walker in the Villages. They will never get to their destination if they keep stopping and telling that story every five minutes.