Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Speed Limit Changes in Sumter County
View Single Post
 
Old 11-18-2011, 11:57 AM
Taj44 Taj44 is offline
Veteran member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 861
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by memason View Post
I suppose the change is to make it safer for cart drivers, but I have this overwhelming feeling that it will just generate income for Sumter county in speeding fines. 20mph is SLOW, SLOW, SLOW. TOO SLOW! I literally have to manually down shift my automatic transmission to stay at 20mph. Try going 10mph around Spanish Springs.

I'll bet you never see a police car going 20mph on any of these streets...

Just my opinion, but slow is not always safer.
Good points. In fact, traffic engineering studies show that slow can be more unsafe.