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Originally Posted by VILLAGERBB
TV could use the numerous trolleys that are sitting at the sales offices for transporting people to the Squares...there is plenty of opportunity to design a system that would benefit village residents...but because things are so spread out folks still need their own personal form of transport once they reach the drop off point.
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You know on our Lifestyle visit, not once did anyone suggest that we take that trolley tour of the Villages. I forgot all about it til our last day and at that point it was already too late to ask. I would've loved the tour, if they were still being offered.
I agree you'd still need to get to the pickup/dropoff points, but my thinking is this:
It's the MAIN roads that have the worst congestion, and the areas around the roundabouts, and the entries/exits into the town squares and non-Villages shopping areas.
The traffic is the focus. To reduce traffic in the highest-congested areas.
Having to drive/golf-cart to the local pickup/dropoff point would reduce traffic. It wouldn't eliminate it, but it would certainly reduce it. There would be fewer drivers from the "other" areas driving to "your" area, and you would be driving less often outside "your" area to "other" areas.
With "your" being the local pickup/dropoff point, such as a regional rec center or town square. That would also mean fewer parking spaces taken in the town squares, because if I see something I want to do on the other end of the Villages, my only option right now is to drive there and take up a parking space. The option to take a trolley/shuttle doesn't currently exist.
I like having options.