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Originally Posted by villagetinker
I would have liked to see a detailed listing of all of the accidents along this section of road and the CAUSE of the accidents. Then I would suggest that we pursue actions that would limit these types of accidents. The report was actually quite good, but it was directed at getting the golf carts and cars separated from each other NOT at reducing accidents, the assumption is that by separating the cars and golf carts this will reduce the accidents.
I am thinking that if we actually knew the leading cause of the accidents, and if there were specific areas that were more accident prone, we could work on those areas at a much lower cost than what the report had.
Basically what I am saying is spend the money specifically where the accidents are occurring.
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I'm pretty sure we both know what such a report would show as the cause of accidents:
1) Cart drivers (distracted, impaired, lousy drivers or other) that merge right in front of a car that cannot stop in time
2) Car drivers (distracted, impaired, lousy drivers or other) that speed up to try to prevent a cart from merging
Both of these types of behaviors stem from the growing societal attitude of "Me first and to heck with you".
Separation would solve the problem, if the car is in Maine and the cart in Hawaii, but doesn't look like a feasibility at 466 and Morse unless millions are spent on a total redesign including a tunnel.