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Originally Posted by dandjonfmk
When we moved to TV 10 years ago a friend who had moved here 3 or 4 years prior gave me some tips on TV speed limits.
If a street has rotaries and a separated multi-modal / cart path (Morse Road and Buena Vista Blvd.) the speed limit is 35-mph dropping to 20-mph through the rotaries. If the street has a painted white stripe denoting a cart lane, the limit is 30-mph. These are normally major streets inside the neighborhood gates. These basic recommendations seem to be reliable, with one exception that comes to mind is Rio Grande. There the limit drops to 25 on the east section where I think you enter Lady Lake/Lake County. This is clearly marked. I am sure there are others. This also seems to explain the 30-mph speed limit on Morse Road north of 466.
Now can someone explain to me why the east/west county roads have a 45-mph limit while the north/south roads are limited to 35-mph. (A pattern or coincidence?) Example is Micro Racetrack to Lake Ella (35mph), Lake Ella East (45 mph) and Micro Racetrack north to 27/441 (35 mph).
He also explained the details of a ticket for exceeding 20-mph in a golf cart. This can happen if your cart is not registered and licensed. The ticket you receive is not for speeding. It is for operating an unlicensed vehicle on a public street. It is my understanding that the ticket is considerably more costly than a speeding ticket. No explanation for if/how the 5-mph margin applies.
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It's a coincidence not a pattern regarding speed limits on East/West vs North/South. Some
are County Roads that span more than one County example CR 100 (Cherry Lake Road) runs
South from CR 466 to Lake Ella Rd. The road starts in Lake County and speed limit is posted as 35 mph it then crosses into Sumter County and the posted limit increases to 45.
The CR 466A posted speed limit is 45 going East until you approach Fruitland Park and it changes to 35 until it ends at 441.
There also are no patterns within the gated sections of the Villages regarding speed limits. Many of the roads north of 466 that have dedicated MM lanes have a posted speed limit of 25 mph while similar roads south of 466 it's 30 mph. The purpose of the signs leading into the Villages is to remind drivers that once they are in the Villages if they are on a road without a
speed limit sign then the maximum speed is 20 mph. Many areas in the Marion County section have posted speed limits of 15 mph.