Meggison Road - how dangerous is this??
The other day, I drove from Brownwood to see the new rec center at Homestead. Meggison Road starts at Brownwood and ends at Homestead so you are on Meggison the entire way. From Brownwood down to the Southern Oaks golf course, golf carts are not allowed on Meggison. That is because there is a MMP (multi-modal path) adjacent to Meggison for that entire length. However, at Southern Oaks, for some reason, the MMP ends and golf carts are forced to drive on Meggison to get to Homestead.
Does anyone know why they have the safe MMP for the first 7 or 8 miles and then they force golf carts on to the roads with cars for the last mile? From what I have read, putting golf carts on the same roads as cars is a problem. When you go north of 466 on Morse, cars and carts are on the same road and there have been a number of golf carts involved in deadly accidents. I had thought that the developer had learned from this and that was the reason that golf carts are not allowed on the main roads (Morse south of 466, Buena Vista, and Meggison). Does anyone have an explanation? It looks like an accident waiting to happen.
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