[NFRicaS]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Google Maps Street View shows the speed limit on Rainey Trail dropping to 20mph just before a sign indicating that golf carts will be crossing ahead. It also shows that there are signs saying no golf carts are to proceed either direction down Rainey Trail. On the Lynnhaven side, there is a sign saying golf carts may only go straight across to Miona Shores.

It appears that the speed limit has been reduced and proper signs erected to make that a legal crossing for golf carts.

1. Google maps doesn't show everything and the data might be old so the signage that exists today might be different.

2. Just because there is a 20mph speed limit sign doesn't mean drivers actually slow to anything close to 20mph in that area.

Maybe one day if I'm bored I'll drive up there and see for myself.


EDIT: 316.2122(2)(a) or 316.2122(3) may also apply

Thanks…how can you see speed limits in street view in Google Maps…?

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by NFRicaS

Thanks…how can you see speed limits in street view in Google Maps…?

Street View

I “drive” along the roads and look at the signs

[Altavia]

Hmm, roundabouts have 20 mph speed limits.

Noticed some roundabouts such as at Lake Lake Okahumpka Recreation Center don't have "No Golf Carts Beyond This Point" signs.

Not sure I'd feel safe taking advantage even if permitted given how some traffic flys through the roundabouts.

Same for some places like Everglades Lane across Marsh Bend Trail into the Everglades parking lot.

[JoMar]

Might be the Sherriff just meant they weren't enforcing

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

I read that sign to have two parts:
1. Speed Limit 20MPH
2. which applies here and everywhere unless otherwise posted. Some distance ahead, after the intersection, is another sign raising the speed limit to 35MPH.

The "Unless otherwise posted" is a bit confusing to me. Isn't EVERY speed limit sign the limit to be followed unless otherwise posted? If at this sign I can say, "well, there was a sign a bit farther back that read 35mph so I'll just travel that speed" then why can't I say that at every sign? "Yes, I know the sign reads 45mph but the one a half mile back read 60mph and the one a half mile ahead reads 60mph so I'll just travel 60mph the whole way."

What’s confusing to me no one travels 20 MPH

[shaw8700@outlook.com]

Actually, I don’t care if they’re not going 20 mph on Rainey/472 because I’d have to sit there longer waiting them to go by.

[dmwaz]

Originally Posted by mraines

Makes no sense that the sheriff would say you can cross 466a. It's illegal.

The way I read the law, it is legal for a golf cart that is traveling on a road 35 mph or less to cross any road 45 mph or less roadway at any intersection with a traffic light. I think the Sheriff reads the law the same way and 466a is a 45 mph roadway so golf carts can cross at an intersection with traffic light and a 35 mph intersecting road.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by dmwaz

The way I read the law, it is legal for a golf cart that is traveling on a road 35 mph or less to cross any road 45 mph or less roadway at any intersection with a traffic light. I think the Sheriff reads the law the same way and 466a is a 45 mph roadway so golf carts can cross at an intersection with traffic light and a 35 mph intersecting road.

It is illegal for a golf cart to travel on a road with a posted speed limit of 35mph or more.


Perhaps what you were reading were the laws regarding low speed vehicles (LSV) which must be registered in Florida.