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Originally Posted by JourneyOfLife
What's the hurry... your retired!
A little courtesy can go a long way.
Work it like farmers do with their tractors on rural roads.... if they are backing up traffic, they find a spot to pullover and let faster traffic go past them.
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Obviously you have not lived here when declaring this
stuff about "what's the hurry...you're retired!"
First of all, The Villages, like any city
runs on a schedule, and there are thousands of people
working and attending
scheduled meetings, classes, sports events, and consultations with professionals here.
Reasonable people want to travel at the speed limit of 19.5 mph for carts, not 5 mph slower!!
When somebody is puddlin' along in the diamond lanes in one of the slow rental carts at 15mph or slower and the rest of cart traffic is going 19.5, reasonable people want/need to pass them. Most people are
going somewhere for a purpose, not just sight-seeing.
The same problem shows up with people who insist on
walking in a diamond lane when there is a
sidewalk built for walking right beside them (and the curbs are not step downs or ups....they are sloped up/down). But many walkers
will not move over, nor onto the sidewalk, when golf carts behind them cannot pass them because of the solid white line, and cars/trucks beside them on their left. Obviously the diamond lanes in the street are made for faster speeds than walking--for which the sidewalks are made--but walkers insist on walking in the street diamond lanes anyway, and golf carts cannot pass them.
It's not unreasonable to want to drive at the speed limit in a diamond lane in the street!!!!