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Old 08-25-2011, 09:16 AM
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Exclamation Fix the cart!
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Originally Posted by Russ_Boston View Post
Personally I think we do need to make sure that REAL cart speeders are stopped but 22 is too tight IMHO.

I love how everyone is being so polite to everyone all of a sudden - maybe it was me!
I've always heard that the police give you 10 MPH over the speed limit on the highways and have passed many a speed trap doing that and not been stopped (Knock on wood.). When in England a couple of years ago I was told that they give you 10% over the speed limit.

My cart can squeeze out 22 MPH on a flat (According to my Garmin.) and I think that 2 MPH is hardly a huge difference. As someone said earlier here, most can walk faster than that. The county issues a ticket for the cart being unregistered simply because it's a higher fine. Some politician decided that, I'm sure.

What they should do is ticket for speeding and require that the vehicle either be made street legal and registered or "unmodified" and have the vehicle owner show proof of compliance to the county within a specified time frame. All at the cart owner's expense, including the speeding fine.
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