Sounds like we need Tech help! MEMason seems to know how to get things done. Also our Tal has done a lot of surveys.

Wouldn't a submission to the AAC do the trick?:shrug:

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Yes but if we had a petition with mants residents names it would carry more weight.

I would recommend a call or email to Janet Tutt, as a starting point. If she isn't the one to take this on, she could certainly point us in the right direction.

Not sure a survey on TOTV would do the trick. If a petition drive were to be attempted, I believe it would need to include name and address to be valid.

Just my thoughts....

Pturner~ I love your quote about the truth of quotes on the internet (A Lincoln) I would have bet that was said by A Gore!;)

Does anybody know what The Daily Sun reported about this accident?

Now I know which one it is and have gone over it many times. We went over it again today. You could be careless and get a wheel over the edge and go over. I think it needs to be filled in underneath. They could put a big pipe in there and cover it with dirt if it is a conduit for run off. Then it needs to be paved as a path, not a bridge. It wouldn't be hard to correct.

We all know they will report it a couple of days later.

The cart paths on the north side were widened by residents funds which I believed was wrong. It was wrong because the cart paths were designed incorrectly. The Developer is the general contractor/manager and should have picked up the costs not residents. Now we have a bridge with the same flaw and again we are going to use residents money. Same old same old

People got hurt. It can't be a HUGE expense to fill it in. It is a relatively short span. No big deal for a construction company the size of theirs.

They, the powers that be surely already know about this accident and that someone fell off that span. Look for it to be remedied.

I thought the funds used were from the original lawsuit against the developer. He has/is paying off the agreed settlement over a few years. In a way, I guess it is the residents' money, but it is being provided by the developer. Am I wrong?

I agree that design of that bridge is less than ideal. I don't know if the environmentally sensitive area restricted the width they could build, but it sure could use another foot or so. Also, the material of the bridge concerns me in wet weather. I don't know if it does become slippery, but it looks like it could. However, this is the first accident I have heard on that bridge in 5+ years here, so maybe it's not as dangerous as it looks.

Let's not forget the annual Residents Survey by the Developer requesting our input and satisfaction levels. If the bridge problem hasn't been remedied by Survey time, there is an area for write-in comments!

I'm going to compare this issue of "fixing" to back home, or up north. Whenever a side-walk needs fixing the cost goes to the home-owner that the sidewalk passes in front of. BUT here with the widening issues etc.--the CDC has a budget for such things and not the developer, from what I understand.

It's totally agreed that there are some paths that could use widening. The Morse St. bridge, for sure over Lake Sumter is one. I wonder how many accidents happen there with carts??!!

The Morse Blvd Bridge golf cart trail over the lake only has two waysof being more wide - and that is to narrow the car lanes.

I suppose you could lose the sidewalk completely but then pedestrians would be in the golf cart lanes. That certainly is not ideal.

The golf cart lanes are plenty wide right now. Pay attention to your driving, slow down to about half throttle (for those who do not have a speedometer), and you will be just fine.

I have to agree. I am using it all of the time since we moved up to 466. Your advice is excellent. I think people are pretty careful when they drive carts on that bridge.