[njbchbum]

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

This sounds like an "ask a cop" issue, but logic says you can leave the golf cart lane and enter the street for a variety of reasons, including left turns and situations when the golf cart (multi-use) lane is obstructed.

Otherwise, when you encounter someone parked in the golf cart lane, as some contractors often do, you would not be able to proceed.

Accordingly, logically, if a bicycle is traveling slower than your cart will go it is obstructing your progress and you should be able to leave the lane to pass it.

I often have other carts pass me when in the cart lane on streets, even when I am at my cart's wide open legal speed of 20 mph. They aren't street legal, just hopped up a bit.

Let us know what the deputy tells you.

Your response is EXACTLY what the S.C. Sheriff told us when we asked him the other night! We were told that it is okay to pass an obstruction in the cart lane if/when it is safe to do so when going outside of the cart lane into the traffic lane! We were cautioned that one must ONLY pass when such a move is SAFE - when there is no oncoming car in the car lane into which you must proceed to pass the bicycle/runner. IOW - don't be a jerk and try to play chicken with oncoming traffic and/or the obstruction!