It is a large fine also 100 or $200.

The right approach. From the postings you would think hundreds of golf cart drivers are zooming along at 25 MPH or higher on golf cart paths. That isn’t reality. There are always those that are inconsiderate and they’re the ones not getting ticked off

If you’re on the street in the golf cart lane, not on a golf cart path

While we are discussing multi modal paths, thank you to all the cart drivers who wait patiently to pass me, when I am on my bike. I ride on the far right side of the path, and it is a bit terrifying when a driver rushes by right next to me.

Just download a speedometer app for your smartphone. The GPS measured speed will be dead on.

I have had golf cart drivers pass me so tightly, I could reach out and grab their mirror. That is just incredibly dangerous. My other pet peeve is coming around a 90 degree bend in the trail and being face to face with a golf cart in the wrong lane.

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If a cart passing you bothers you that much, you are the one with the problem.

Nicely said.

Nicely said.

Broken gate arms are the result of rectal issues:1rotfl:

Bull. The carts are engineered to be safe at more than 20. Just like you car is safe at speeds over 70.

your engineering expertise is in ?

Golf carts speeding.
 

I live in a courtyard villa so there is no room between the front of my property and the street. Golf carts coming speeding down the road from the next subdivision nearly knocking me over when I am pulling weeds even when I am on my property and not on the street.

Which is why there are so many accidents. Rules of the road should be followed.

But this causes even less time to be around for the speeder and those the speeders run into. Think about this. You'd think SENIORS would show more wisdom...

I am amazed at the rude, stupid comments. The rules are always being ignored, especially in speeding golf carts. Enforce the rules and you get obedience, especially when you hit them in the wallet. I ran my car and my golf cart and it runs about 19 to 20 miles an hour, which is appropriate. I wish the cops would beef up their coffers with tickets for speeders, they deserve it.

Tee time... get out of the way.

If you open up your Villages GPS and plug in your chosen destination, you'll see your speed on the lower left corner of the cell phone. It tracks that stuff. Pretty handy.

The illegal carts have become the rule rather than the exception. Very poor enforcement by the sheriff's department. I wonder why.

Your batting 0 for 2. It's considered driving an unregistered vehicle and is a second degree misdemeanor with fines up to $500 and 60 days in jail. Normally first offense at the courthouse in Bushnell is about $450 and no jail time. Don't wear shorts or you'll sit all day in court and be called last. Also you'll need to bring a letter from a golf cart mechanic certifying your cart has been dialed back to the legal speed of less than 20 mph.

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Has anyone been on Bichara Ave. lately? It is a 20 MPH speed limit for cars and carts. Cars go at least 40 and with all the restaurant turn-in's look out the cars will cut you off at the entrance like you do not even exist.

Oh yes, then there are the cross streets with no stop signs on Bichara Ave. Guess what, you better stop in your cart and cross carefully or you will be crushed by a vehicle crossing Bichara. Carts beware!!!

😰 Didn't you know..... They are going to get to bed 5 minutes earlier!

You're absolutely correct. I remember about two years ago several posters complained about getting tickets for going 26 on Bichara. That's the road with Applebees, Burger King, KFC/Taco Bell, AAA Office and a whole bunch of businesses, and going 40 mph is dangerous. Yes, getting a ticket for going only going 6 mph over the speed limit is tough, but it's really necessary on that stretch of road.

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Garywt - you took my thoughts right out of my mind. I always thought driving 5 mph faster than what the legal speed limit is & driving 5 miles to the golf course or going home to lay on the couch will only save them MAYBE 4 or 5 min. in a 5 mile drive. How many times have you seen the police have a cart pulled over? We lived in TV for 8 yrs. &
I only saw 2 carts pulled over in that time. Speeding threats in paper are just scare tactics. Just like everything else TV doesn’t want make anybody mad to wear they don’t like TV. TV is a privilege to live there but if TV have rules follow them, the rules there aren’t that bad!

Another thread that turns into telling the Police what they should do. I think they are doing a fine job keeping all the meth heads, thieves and Villager's crazy children under control.

Why were you speeding on BVB?

Use your gps on your smart phone as it has a speedometer or download one of the freebies.

Agreed! On our first venture out on the cart path we were passed by someone who nearly had a head on collision with a cart going the opposite direction!! Relax people!

An endless issue. People do not will not follow rules unless they are enforced and they are not.
I'm not sure how it goes. I do understand that if you are caught speeding it will cost you around $500. Imagine a police officer in traffic court. Your honor I clocked his red yamaha doing 30 mph. His plate number? There are no plates your honor.

No solution will be perfect. Plates? Random stops to check your speed setting?
Perhaps, like drunk driving in some places you loose your car if you are caught driving drunk. My cart is set at the legal speed. I had one damn fool in a blue golf cart so ****ed she followed me home.

A problem. As you read the posts remember these are the people that you/we face.

Also Villages GPS you pay $7 for has speedometer

“Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14

Rules are meant to be broken - General Douglas MacArthur
 

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.”
― Banksy
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

Rules are meant to be broken - General Douglas MacArthur
 

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.”
― Banksy
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

I feel they are breaking the law and should be ticketed. What we need are portable speed radar that records speed and photos of car and license and automatically send out tickets. That only thing going slow habitual speeders down.

Re: speeding threats.
You do not need to catch everyone. You do need to catch enough so that it is a REAL threat. Far as a golf cart, you do need to be a certain age, sober etc but you do not need to have plates or a license. Thus, issuing a ticket, I don't know what is needed but it is obviously difficult-perhaps why it isn't often done.
As stated in another post of mine. Imagine a cop in traffic court. He was in a red yamaha doing 25 mph. Hum, how do you know it was him? Plate-none. License-none.
How did you determine he was doing 25. Well I blocked traffic while I used my speedometer. When was your speedometer ever checked that it properly reads 25 mph?

As to saving five minutes over a five mile trip, likely it is far less than that. There are stop signs. There are legal drivers in front of you etc. I doubt it but hopefully someone with think and wonder. They are what they are and likely were always like that,

We do not live in the outback. No shortage of such quotes. They are all out of context.
Real world. Image someone decides the object to driving on the right side. So they decide they have the right to drive in the golf cart lane or on the road TOWARD YOU?
Hum. But OFFICER they should follow the rules. I just don't think I should

Good point. There are 3 groups in TV Land driving around. 1 ) The residents that are retired and take their time driving close to the speed limit on the interior (inside the gates) low-speed roads. 2 ) The residents that are retired and drive their cars and golf cars AS IF they were still working and are late for work. (they even "soup-up" their golf cars). 3 ) The non-retired drivers of commercial trucks such as the lawn service people that typically drive WAY above all speed limits. They are young, impulsive, dead-end types with little regard for their own future - let alone, YOURS. Many, not all, are paid weekly and are undependable losers from the bottom of the gene pool. They are potential criminals that walk and drive among the vulnerable senior residents. They can act as scouts and reconnaissance agents to "tip-off" and get rewarded by their evening shift of breaking and entering fellow low-lives.
.......It is no wonder that they speed through the low-speed limit residential streets with their adrenaline-filled, illegal-drug-filled veins bulging with rage against authority. The ONLY recourse for the Village residents to offset this gangland horror on the streets is to cut their own grass or pay ONLY retired residents to cut their grass. Do your part to prevent local crime by reducing the lawn maintenance gangs!

We stay in line and if we get to a point where we can go another way we take the path that they don’t.

This is my Village complaint. We do have a great life, I try not to let my cancer in the way, 7.5 years and still fighting.

General lee
 

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