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Old 02-27-2012, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by CarGuys View Post
We were here last week for work on our new home. The people were nice the carts all seemed to be doing the legal thing?

The darn construction vehciles were weaving, running stop signs. turn signals are optional to them? They were speeding and I was shocked to see from our car how close they drifted to carts in the Diamond path heading up St Charles to Tamarind.

Also in one week the inner gate post completely smashed twice. Once bent up bad second time ripped off!

I guess this is the STRESS of new developement growth?
CarGuys...I have posted a few times about this problem in the St. Charles/Tamarind Grove area, as have others. It is a scary, scary stretch of road for both cars and carts. Your description of how the contractor vehicles drive is spot on. We’ve had a couple of accidents, including a fatality. I've had several close calls in both my car and golf cart. It is mainly due to the construction going on...with St. Charles being the only main road into the last remaining construction going on North of 466A.

There were people complaining in another thread about the police issuing tickets on St. Charles. Those folks (the complainers) obviously haven’t spent much time driving that stretch of St. Charles, or else they’d be welcoming police presence. Edited to add...Jeez, it's this thread that folks are complaining about tickets on St. Charles !DOH!

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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
No...more likely the twofers at happy hour.
Sorry GG, wrong assumption on your part. That gate gets knocked down at least once a day, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. And I am not exaggerating one bit. It has nothing to do with drinking and driving. The gates are set to open automatically (I assume because of all of the construction). And on the left side, the contractor vehicles don’t even slow down...because they are expecting the gate to pop open before they get there...which it does, 8 out of 10 times. The other two times...the gate gets smashed. AND, there is a golf cart crossing on the other side of the gate. It’s beyond ridiculous, and we’ve been living (by the grace of God) with this situation for months.