[Chellybean]

Originally Posted by Pairadocs

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" ! !

OMG where did you get "GOLF CARTS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY"
You are misleading people to there death, They most certainly DO NOT have the right of way!

[Mrprez]

Originally Posted by Chellybean

OMG where did you get "GOLF CARTS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY"
You are misleading people to there death, They most certainly DO NOT have the right of way!

Reread the first two paragraphs.

[PugMom]

Originally Posted by VApeople

Maybe that sign was taken down because it was not true then and it is not true now.

i agree. when we 1st got here, i was giving the carts right-of-way, only to be strongly reprimanded that to give them right-of-way would cause accidents & severe hostility, it's the opposite from where i had lived prior, & wrongly assumed the laws were the same here

[VApeople]

Originally Posted by PugMom

i agree. when we 1st got here, i was giving the carts right-of-way, only to be strongly reprimanded that to give them right-of-way would cause accidents & severe hostility, it's the opposite from where i had lived prior, & wrongly assumed the laws were the same here

It sounds like you got real smart real fast. Good for you.

Last year we went over to Cocoa Beach for a few days and looked at the area. We heard about a new area called Viera so we drove down there to see what it was like. We didn't see as many golf carts as there are in TV, but I think they had the right of way when they had to cross streets.

By the way, Cocoa was really bad. The only birds we saw on that ugly beach were pigeons.

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by VApeople

It sounds like you got real smart real fast. Good for you.

Last year we went over to Cocoa Beach for a few days and looked at the area. We heard about a new area called Viera so we drove down there to see what it was like. We didn't see as many golf carts as there are in TV, but I think they had the right of way when they had to cross streets.

By the way, Cocoa was really bad. The only birds we saw on that ugly beach were pigeons.

The accidents and hostility have nothing to do with the golf carts and everything to do with the attitudes of the people driving them and the cars. Many no longer care and only want what they want, everything else doesn't matter. Thankful that those folks are still in the minority as most people here still practice civility.