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Originally Posted by CWGUY

Today in the Daily Sun on page 1 there is a picture of a LSV. Up to 3000lbs.

While I might enjoy seeing two wedged in a tunnel.... I hope I'm not on a multi-modal path when one goes by in each direction next to me. I hope nobody gets hurt because this bill passed. I also wonder what damage they will do to the golf courses. The rules state they must be less than 1500 lbs. curb weight to be on a Villages fairway. I think my carts weight about 600 lbs. each. Who going to check the tires? They don't check them on golf carts anymore.

Read the story. I don't even want to think about the kids driving 3000lb. LSV on the paths and roads.

My 4 seat GEM is like the one on the front page of the Daily Sun today, it has a curb weight of 1270 lbs and has golf course tires, so no issues on the course. It is 55 inches wide though. So far I have been able to negotiate through the smaller tunnels with carts passing by without incident but do it very cautiously. I don't take it on the golf cart bridge over 441 and only use the path on the Morse Bridge if I want to park and see the sunsets as it is really narrow. Never any issues on the Multi-Modal paths as they are mostly wider, the narrow paths are on streets that mostly have 25 MPH speed limits so I stay in the street. The one cart path that is really bad is the one through the hedges that leads to the Wood Shop...I have met golf carts on it in the past and we just squeezed through, had I met up with another GEM Cart one of us would have had to back out I suspect.