[Laker14]

Originally Posted by Sandy and Ed

Interesting! Following the letter and not the intent. Hmmm…

What do you think the intent of the law is?

Is it to make a golf cart go 5mph while a bicyclist crawls up a long incline?

How about a double yellow line, when a car approaches a bicyclist crawling up an incline?

Are we sure we know the whole story behind the citation?

[fishon]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Not bicycles, people are hazards.

You are correct. The bicycle is not a hazard. The bicyclists are the hazard.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Sandy and Ed

Ok. Now the elephant in the room…..Top speed on my cart is 20 mph. I do see it reach 21 mph downhill or in a strong tailwind. EVERYBODY passes me. Should I “adjust” that little spring so I can increase speed by 5 mph?! Probably illegal but it would help a lot of cart drivers behind me better avoid a ticket. A conundrum.

Help the cart drivers behind you avoid a ticket that was the result of them making an apparently illegal pass after modifying their cart to an illegal configuration? It seems like their ticket would be the culmination of several poor choices on their part and not your responsibility in any way.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Laker14

What do you think the intent of the law is?

Is it to make a golf cart go 5mph while a bicyclist crawls up a long incline?

How about a double yellow line, when a car approaches a bicyclist crawling up an incline?

Are we sure we know the whole story behind the citation?

EDIT - IGNORE, INCORRECT -> Surprisingly, Florida law contains an exception which specifically allows you to cross the center line of a road to pass a bicycle. It does not seem contain the same exception for two lanes traveling in the same direction.

Florida law allows crossing the center line of a road to pass a bicycle. It also allows crossing to the left of a solid line to pass a bicycle. What it does not allow is crossing a solid white line (no passing zone) to pass another vehicle that is NOT a bicycle.

[derkster]

Maintenance crews regularly park their vehicles in the diamond lanes while they cut grass, tend to bushes and flower beds etc. With this in mind, there will be long lines of golf carts backed up while they do their projects. We will have to start a traffic report on channel 1013 to alert drivers just where the backups are.

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by Sandy and Ed

Ok. Now the elephant in the room…..Top speed on my cart is 20 mph. I do see it reach 21 mph downhill or in a strong tailwind. EVERYBODY passes me. Should I “adjust” that little spring so I can increase speed by 5 mph?! Probably illegal but it would help a lot of cart drivers behind me better avoid a ticket. A conundrum.

I was thinking about the same elephant. It seems to me that if a LEO were to ticket a cart driver for crossing the white line to pass, while exceeding the 20mph limit, that they would cite the cart driver for the bigger infraction of operating an unregistered motor vehicle.
That is the bigger fish to fry.

If the Sumter Co. Sheriff Dept. wants to stop carts from crossing the white line to pass other carts, it could spend the whole day on Pinellas, or Bailey, or Odell, just writing tickets. Yet they don't do that, yet we are to believe one sheriff decided to do it this one time...

Something just seems weird to me in this entire scenario.

[rrtjp]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

You aren't required to have a drivers license to drive a golf cart in Florida. You aren't required to take any test, or read any manual.

Maybe you should be

[kayak]

The solid white lines for the golf cart lanes have got to go. Replace every one of them with broken white lines. Problem solved.

[merrymini]

I wish the police would ticket any golf cart doing over 20 miles per hour instead. Would bring some good money in and penalize people who are, in very certain terms, breaking the law.

[rrtjp]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Not bicycles, people are hazards.

Agree

[Southwest737]

A picture of her ticket.

[Bogie Shooter]

The sheriff should put the deputy who wrote up this ticket…..in timeout.

[wamley]

If the Sheriff said it's a violation, why not ask him to quotes the Statute that would appear on the ticket the Deputy Sheriff would put on the ticket you would receive for the violation he/she is citing you for. Typically in Vehicle and Traffic laws vehicles cannot cross solid white lines unless its to avoid an accident.

[BigHoss18]

Originally Posted by Hardlyworking

There is a thread on the N***D*** site where someone is claiming to have been issued a ticket for crossing the solid white line of the diamond lane to pass another golf cart.

I did a quick search through this forum thinking that the topic has been discussed already but couldn’t find anything.

[rhetorical] What does this say about a society that "lets criminals steal several hundred dollars worth of retail items and run away without challenge?" And then tickets an "otherwise law-abiding citizen for crossing a solid white line to go on their way?"

"Common sense" is no longer valued or exercised among a vast majority of our hideous population.

[PoolBrews]

Originally Posted by Southwest737

A picture of her ticket.

I don't think this is a real ticket. The word designated is incorrectly spelled. I see it is typed/printed out, meaning it was automatically generated, and I doubt that the wording would be spelled incorrectly.

I've never received a ticket that didn't have hand writing on it, but I haven't gotten a ticket in a loooong time.