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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
I was coming back home in my car about noon today, I was on Buena Vista northbound and waiting for the left turn arrow to go onto Southern Trace.
While the North and South traffic was stopped by the red light, 3 golf carts crossed Buena Vista from the Saddlebrook side to the Polo Ridge side. They obviously did not want to take the designated detour to the Belvedere Tunnel now that the Saddlebrook Tunnel is closed for repairs.
Waiting for them on the other side was a Sumter County Deputy. He signaled all three carts to the grassy area and was talking with them. Hopefully, he just warned them what they did was illegal. Otherwise, he could charge them with a variety of citations costing a few hundred dollars.
To me, it seems that an exception should have been made for the month the repair is being done. A sign could have been put up instructing cart drivers they could cross Buena Vista at that spot while obeying the traffic light.
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Plenty of discussion on this in a recent thread:
Saddlebrook-multi-modal-tunnel-closure
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Originally Posted by manaboutown
Cite them. Fine them.
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Agree. I believe that one of the respondents to the linked email chain indicated that he planned to cross in a similar fashion. If the detour is that much of an inconvenience, then drive or wait until the repairs are completed if using a golf cart is a must or accept the consequences which I hope is only a traffic ticket or two and not a life changing event.