Originally Posted by Pairadocs
(Post 1856621)
WOW ! Probably few remember the giant signs when you entered the villages:
CAUTION, you are ENTERING A GOLF CART COMMUNITY, golf carts have the RIGHT OF WAY.
Has anyone noticed over the years the LACK of common courtesy and sense not only on our residential streets, but on the multi-modal paths as well ? When once folks would all go about the same speed in their golf carts (for instance going toward the squares about entertainment hour), and all would carefully slow down behind bike riders (used to be you seldom saw people riding in the streets but it's very common now) and be content to go just a little slower (what could they miss, maybe ONE song, is that a major thing when considering the possibility of injuring someone ?) and folks were all fine with that.
Now, it's a complete about turn ! Being the fastest cart on the path is the whole focus, giving slower folks the "high sign" as they recklessly pass JUST before the path splits, is the goal. People brag about who and how they have had their carts (race cars) altered to increase the speed and then resent those in carts going at a safe speed. Have any of you had someone pass you at a very high speed, definitely over 20 miles an hour, only to have to STOP right behind them as they were forced to stop at the place where you must stop and turn onto the street to enter Lake Sumter Square ? All that risk and for what ? They finally have to stop and wait for the cars until they can make the turn anyway ! ! So foolish and they don't even SAVE any of their precious time ! ? Some people (as someone on here mentioned) are as hard to understand as smelling the color purple or the number nine (or something like that...LOL !) Seriously, HOW did this all happen ? A friendly little active life style community that encouraged physical activities like bike riding, built dedicated trails for this so people could inline skate (sure don't see that any more, what a shame, good exercise with proper protection, keeps away the arthritis...lol, but not now, dangerous as bike riding. People on here can, of course, make fun of those of us who long for the "old days", but why should the "new days" be less courteous, or more dangerous, than the "old days". We "could" make this a friendly, polite, safe community just like the "old days" ! !
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