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Old 10-30-2013, 05:24 PM
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I think everyone issued a resident ID card (and renters getting the owner's ID card transferred to them) should first have to attend a one-time class on "Driving in The Villages 101".

It would cover
- everything in this linked Roundabout Brochure, and especially the advisory "DO NOT ENTER next to a vehicle in the roundabout, as that vehicle may be exiting at the next exit" (http://sumtercountyfl.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/3939 )
- everything about driving golf carts on multi-modal paths and diamond lanes;
- the ramifications of speeding in a non-street legal cart and what the fines add up to;
- tunnels and turning into them squarely instead of cutting diagonally across the other driver's lane;
- and all the things people complain about on these threads;
- what a turn signal is for;
- and everything else that's unique about driving in this huge place.

They are VALID complaints but people can be taught!