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Old 04-08-2023, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles View Post
Another function of the nanny state paid for by the taxpayers???????
Sounds to me like the same function, just enforced. Exceeding the maximum speed on a golf cart is already a violation. Exceeding the speed limit is another violation. These are traffic violations, worthy of nothing more than a ticket. But if they're not enforced, there's no point in them existing.

I'm all for more efficient enforcement. Can't catch everyone - but for instance today -

I was coming past the Boone Gate on Paradise on my way to the golf cart bridge from my end of the neighborhood. I was behind three other golf carts. The speed limit after the intersection is posted as 15mph. We were all going around 17-18mph. And the guy directly in front of me shifted over to the other side of the road and passed the other TWO golf carts - very obviously going well past 25mph.

If there had been a police car at the fire department, the postal parking lot, or the rec center parking lot, they could've pulled that guy over and given him a ticket for a few different violations.

But there is never a police car at these locations, unless they're called to handle an existing problem.