[twinklesweep]

I observed an incident between two golf carts--one conventional and one street legal--at the Belvedere gate, one of several "multi-modal" gates in TV where there is a golf cart lane next to the car road. There is no merging there as we see at many of the gates, just two lanes. The gate arm stops only cars; the golf carts in the golf cart lane just drive through.

The street legal cart had stopped behind the gate and the driver used his gate card to open the gate. The cart in the golf cart lane just breezed through. At that moment the driver of the street legal cart suddenly shifted into the golf cart lane, physically forcing the other driver into Hialeah Villas. Both men jumped out of their carts and came at each other, the driver of the street legal cart screaming at the other man, "I have a street legal cart, and I have a RIGHT to be in whatever lane I want!"

I'm not familiar with the laws governing street legal carts. I would not only never own one, I would never be a passenger in one! I was shocked by the arrogance on the part of the driver of the street legal cart and wondered how many other drivers of this kind of vehicle feel "the power" (at least among golf carts) and share that attitude?