Cart Lane Safety issue
 

We just returned from our home in TV and was concerned about the number of walkers that are walking facing traffic but they are on the cart lanes. I am refereing to the cart lanes that run right next to as yroad way and not the larger cart trails that are away from the streets. These walkers sometimes walk two abreast and don't seem to want to move over or in single file as you approach them from the other direction in your cart. I do understand that pedistrians always have the right of way however, there are sidewalks, though they may be on the other side of the street, they could walk on. This causes the cart traffic to swing out into the car lanes to give the walkers their room. I guess my question is should the walkers stay on the sidewalks as opposed to walking in the cart lanes? As the winter season brings more and more people and possibly more and more walkers, I am only concerned about the safety aspects of this situation,

I have walked the multi-paths and the street facing the traffic. Thirty years experience with vehicles have taught me to always watch them coming toward me. I will not have traffic come from behind me as I have almost been run-over by drunk or careless drivers. I will walk sidewalks where available.

Rule of the road, wheeled traffic travels in same direction, slower vehicles keeping to the right, and walkers face traffic.

I see people walking in the golf cart lane when the sidewalk is right there next to the cart path. I was wondering if the sidewalk cement was harder on their legs than the asphalt. I don't know. I'm looking for a reasonable explanation when I see crazy behavior. Hey, does that make me a GracieGirl groupie? I hope so..... :bowdown:

We have questioned that so often. Why would walkers walk in the golf cart lane when there is a sidewalk right next to them. It happens all the time and is dangerous. Wish someone could enlighten me.

My guess is they don't like having to go up and down the curbing at the cross streets.

Risk not worth taking
 

The attitude of walkers I've seen doing this seems defiant. Like an ant shaking its fist at an elephant.

Cart Lane Walkers
 

This morning as the sun was coming up, I was traveling in my cart down Canal St when in front of me were two women walking down the cart lane towards me. The sidewalk was just next to them and there was no one on the sidewalk. I slowed down as I approached them in the twilight. A car was coming on from my back. One of the walkers in a jogging outfit stepped over the curb and onto the sidewalk. The other person stayed on the cart lane facing me. I slowed and then swerved out into the car lane just as the car passed us. As I went past the two women, I yelled out, "Please, walk on the sidewalk." One women yelled out something I could not make out. I would imagine it was something not complementary.

I can't understand why people insist on walking or running down the cart lane, when an available sidewalk is right next to them. Could someone who walks down the cart lane please explain this?

I can only imagine that they took the old bumper sticker seriously. You know, the one that said, "If you don't like my driving, get the hell of the sidewalk!"

Step on a crack, break your mother's back . . . ?

Maybe what we cart drivers should do is NOT swerve into the street, but instead calmly stop driving and smile sweetly while making the walkers go around us?

But I guess that would only work in the summer when there are only a few carts out and about.

Proving their point
 

You have to wonder about the common sense of somebody who's willing to risk being hit by a four-wheel vehicle in order to prove a point.

Sometimes I think they're trying to prove the point that they are "healthier" than cart or car drivers, by exercising for an hour--going nowhere in particular . . while people in carts and cars are going to a destination at a certain time.

Some things don't make sense:
1. People who are physically capable of moving fast and when they see a car coming, they still walk or stand in the path of the car daring you to hit them.
2. People who ride bycicles going with the traffic instead of facing oncoming traffic, (much safer).
3. People who have a perfectly good sidewalk to walk on and put themselves and others in danger by walking in the street.

My guess is that it is a human nature thing in that people want to do what they want and the heck with the rules and or safety. It concerns me that someone doesn't think the person in the vehicle may be distracted and or not paying attention or could be under the influence.

I sometimes think they will be inspecting the axles of a cart someday. It sure could be painful.

Maybe they are a lawyer or know a good lawyer.

I sure hope they don't find out the hard way.

Laws governing bicycle operation mandate that bicycles travel in the same direction as traffic. It is extremely confusing for a motorist to have a bicycle coming head on at him in the same lane of traffic.

Talk Host;

I stand corrected.