You need to visit, most use their carts as primary mode of transportation and it's not the "paths" that are in question, it's the public roads

Great posting! Lt Wolfe IS a great guy and a wonderful person to get the straight stuff from. Thanks for taking the initiative to ask "the man" and give us a report from him. I'm sure the OP and his club president thought certain what they heard was correct but sometimes we get things filtered a bit too much. It's happened to all (or at least most) of us. :o

There you go! Just don't test out your theories in front of a cop and you'll never have to find out. Plus..I have a feeling that the cops have more to do than track down & bust errant golf cart captains, unless this is a push by the county to rake in some extra money.

Old villages wives tale. Not true.

Bump someone traveling 3 mph with your cart that can go 25 mph. When the passenger in the other cart demands to be taken to the hospital be ready to cover all those bills as your cart is not legally a golf cart and your insurance co will hang you out to dry by yourself.

The VHA does a golf cart safety meeting the 3rd Wednesday at the Savannah Center every month. 10:00 am.....Sumter, Lake and Marion law enforcement is there to answer all your questions.

I think that the sheriff's department must have gotten many complaints of unsafe lane changes or carts jumping into the vehicle lanes to pass carts without signaling or slowing up traffic because their cart could go a half a mile per hour faster than the cart they were passing.

Obviously you have not lived here when declaring this stuff about "what's the hurry...you're retired!"

First of all, The Villages, like any city runs on a schedule, and there are thousands of people working and attending scheduled meetings, classes, sports events, and consultations with professionals here.

Reasonable people want to travel at the speed limit of 19.5 mph for carts, not 5 mph slower!!

When somebody is puddlin' along in the diamond lanes in one of the slow rental carts at 15mph or slower and the rest of cart traffic is going 19.5, reasonable people want/need to pass them. Most people are going somewhere for a purpose, not just sight-seeing.

The same problem shows up with people who insist on walking in a diamond lane when there is a sidewalk built for walking right beside them (and the curbs are not step downs or ups....they are sloped up/down). But many walkers will not move over, nor onto the sidewalk, when golf carts behind them cannot pass them because of the solid white line, and cars/trucks beside them on their left. Obviously the diamond lanes in the street are made for faster speeds than walking--for which the sidewalks are made--but walkers insist on walking in the street diamond lanes anyway, and golf carts cannot pass them.

It's not unreasonable to want to drive at the speed limit in a diamond lane in the street!!!!

ha ha ha....I had to laugh about the walkers in the diamond lanes. You're exactly right, that they will [sometimes] not yield to carts.

Can you imagine the posts, on here, should someone get caught driving their cart on the sidewalk ???

I would just like to say that "cowboys" are some of the most considerate and courteous people on the planet.

This "cowboy" will be there next week for a few days and will drive very careful because of reading this thread.
Maybe the slower drivers could pull to the right at road intersections like a passing lane only they move over and the passer just stays in the lane. Just thinking out loud.
Just sayin'

OK, not the diamond lane but.....

Just in the last few weeks I have had two encounters with walkers that just leave me shaking my head. This was on multi modal paths. The first was four people walking next to each other WITH (going the same direction as) traffic. Each cart had to stop, then the walkers would move over and go back to walking 4 abreast after the cart passed. A week later two people were walking WITH traffic side-by-each (as they say in Fall Reever). They just walk along without a clue that they are impeding traffic.

SHARE the path means SHARE the path? Ok... I am done whining for now....

There is a style of joking that is referred to as a "wry sense of humor".

You will see it from time to time in my posts. :jester:

AJ, do golf carts have horns? If not, West Marine has excellent air horns. :evil6: (Okay, sorry sorry...)

It's about time! I've often wondered why everyone is in such a hurry. Riddle me that one!!!

I have one of those.............very effective.