The golf cart lanes are not part of the roadway for vehicular traffic per the law. Law enforcement go by and wave to me all the time when I'm running. They don't stop me and quote this law. I'm not in the street. I'm on the golf cart lane running alongside the sidewalk. This is unique to The Villages. I've run all over the country and never ever have had so much trouble running along the side of the road as here and we have the best lanes of all for running on. Sure we have to share with Golf Carts. That's the problem. Golf cart drivers are in a hurry and do not wish to share their portion of the road with us runners. And like I said there are NOT that many out there for this to be such an issue.
The sidewalks are for walkers. When I'm running quite often I pass by people walking on the sidewalks. Sometimes they're walking their grandkids or their dogs. For me to run on the sidewalks means to constantly go up and down to get around them not to mention it's the worse possible surface to run on. It's much easier for a golf cart to just pass me by. There's plenty of room and most of the time there are no other cars behind them for them to worry about.
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