Golf Cart ID's
 

The above two quotes were taken from another thread ("golf cart rage"). I didn't want the subject to get lost and I believe it is worth a dedicated thread.

I am in agreement with Kahuna and rubicon. We need some way to identify golf cart ownership for a number of reasons. The positives far out rank the negatives.

I believe it's a great idea. Illegally parked carts have no fear because it can't be enforced.
Carts taking down the gates would be identifiable. The idiots that drive as such would also be known.

If this could be done in such a way as our ID cards are given out, and required for all carts...which would be a tuffy.(There would always be some that refused) WITHOUT being a big expense and hassle,,,,,


Then what would happen when carts would be sold and transferred? Maybe our picture ID on them?


It looks easy, but probably would be very challenging and some would abuse the system, etc.etc. I certainly don't want an expensive "government" even if it is CDD government, program.


Gracie, the fiscal conservative.


Some call me tight.

I would also vote for this concept - even if 'we' had to fund it by purchasing a tag or sticker.

you forget the biggest offenders are typically those that rent carts - now whom is responsible the renter or the rentee.... I think the problem can be fixed very easily - before someone can rent a cart - they are give a two or three page list of rules and regulations of cart-men-ship - that they must read and then take a 10 question test on this reading - if below seventy no cart that day!!! -- it is not so much the carts as it is the ignorance of basic rules - ie driving on the major highways here, using the rotaries, blowing off stop signs, and a big one making a left hand turn from right cart lane, etc.

Our cars, boats, even our dogs have licenses. If it becomes too much of a problem for the government, they will implement cart registration. Renting a cart will be like renting a car; the powers that be will have no problem tracking you down. I'd like to see an EZ Pass type of system replace gate cards. The same type of transponder could be used in golf carts for both identification and easy access through the gates. Considering how huge the Villages will be in the not so distant future, it would be a real convenience, worth the cost of implementation.

Yes, there are some advantages, but it is also a bureaucrat's dream - a whole new entity for more fees, more rules, more paperwork, more bureaucrats, more restrictions, more regulations, more telling you what you can and can't do, ----!!!

Exactly!

pathways
 

someone from the villages dahhhhhhhh

Couple of years ago...
 

Friends here reported on this forum that their expensive car was run into by a golf cart, sideswiped and the culprit hit them and ran.


Left them with expensive damage.


Also if we had tags of some kind we could identify those who might be here and up to no good. The fellow who stole the cart from in front of the Publix at Mulberry lived off campus in a trailer park nearby but he was able to get in somehow and rob places here.


Not failsafe but a start. And perhaps being easily identifiable would give pause to some grandparents handing the cart keys over to some of their grandkids who aren't good drivers and a little wild and reckless.


P.S. I meant NO harm by saying trailer park. A lot of happy and wonderful people enjoy modular homes all over Florida.

Tear down this wall. !!!! :doh:

Me too. All we need is a license plate big enough that a camera can read, or a person can read and write down. Even rental carts should have them if they're rented to people in TV. that way the idiots mowing down the gates who get photographed but never caught could be made to pay for the repairs, and the people causing road hazards could be reported. I would be happy to pay for such a tag. Of course, I don't have a golf cart... heh-heh:o

But I still pay amentity fees.

Thank you for your contribution.

I would love if the Villages required a LARGE easily seen tag of some sort to be placed on all carts. I can't believe it would be very expensive to manage it. There would be so many great reasons to know who is in the golf carts if you have a reason to know. However, there would have to be someone who has the authority to actually do something about problems if any issues came up. One of the hardest thing in the Villages is to find someone who has the authority, everyone I have ever asked says 'I am not allowed to actually do anything." ie keep people from saving seats, make people obey any guidelines, etc. There was a guy one day at one of the pools who jumped into the pool in his underwear---the community watch person was there--but when some of the residents told the person about what was happening, his reply was that we would have to call 911, that the CW people aren't allowed to get involved. I personally observed a fight getting ready to happen at the square one night, walked all around the square, found one of the "events people" and told them about it. Their response was to call 911. Now I don't blame them if that is what they are told to do, but we need "someone" who has the authority to act when needed other than the police.

You are so right...more BIG BROTHER.