Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

jj - there probably aren't that many Heinlein fans out there, but I agree with you. Except Lazarus would probably turn in down.

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

I had the same thing happen to me coming through the Sunset Point Gate.

I also have a problem with the guards letting in cars on the visitor's side when a car is coming through the resident gate. I complained so many times and nothing is being done. I guess they are waiting for an accident to happen.

I also had a golf cart go right in front of me as I was coming through the gate without even stopping at the stop sign.

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

If not Lazarus, how about Michael Valentine Smith for President and Podkayne for VP? (Nothing like leaving out part of a name to make even me go HUH?)

As Forest would say, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

Had the person entering the Wales Place gate (North of the bridge on 441) made this gesture last year when my Mother was in the intersection, she would not have been thrown out of her cart when it was hit.

Everyone needs to pay attention...

Jim

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By law, all golf carts are to stop and yield to vehicular traffic. I'm curious, what was different in your mother in law's case?

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

It was my Mother, not in law... Anyway, the gate at Wales Place is very close to Paradise - like 30 feet. My Mother was more than half way through the intersection (she did stop before entering the intersection) when the gate went up and the person charged forward. This is a resident only gate, so I can only assume this person was a resident and well aware of golf carts traveling on roadways.

Jim

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When I am traveling south on the cart trail from Springdale, I get to the Bellaire crossover. If the way is clear, I cross into the median (between the gates) and wait for the traffic to clear. Too many times people in cars stop and wave me across. I really am waiting for them to go. They have the right of way. It is the same when I am entering Springdale. I get to the median (between the gates) and they wave me across. Personally, if I am in the car and I see the cart stop, I keep going.


Some people do not understand the median concept. I was raised in Florida and that is the way it is done. You got a clear shot on one side and you moved to the median. When the traffic clears you cross overt the next set of lanes. through traffic goes first.

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

One would think that when one buys a cart, there should be a list of laws and regulations given to them at the same time. Age limits, speed limits, rights of ways, permissable roads, etc... does not need to be real fancy, just a page or two. :read: This should be issued from every dealer, new or used carts. Also... are these rules gone over at the New Comers meetings.

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

There are rules when you buy a golf cart.You answered them when you took your drivers test. I agree with all the above,don't try to change the traffic laws it confuses everyone

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Our guest need to know the rules.

I always tell my guest what the program is so they won't do what they might think is the nice thing to do.

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Ooper:

:agree:

So easy to do, so sensible to do, so much easier on everyone to do!

When I bought mt cart almost 3 years ago, I didn't get anything more than, "Here's your key, and here's how to make it go forward, and here's how to make it go backward!" I kind of suspected that "The Rules of the Road" would apply, but there were a number of times in the first couple of months when I didn't apply them properly!

I do not recall a word having been said at any Newcomers meeting of any sort!

SWR

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If you are going to give a cart the right away to cross at the gates, don't open the gate until they cross then proceed. That would be the most safe thing to do. Just use good common sense and follow rules of the road, they are not that much different from state to state.

If you are in your cart in the cart lane and going to make a left turn merge into the traffic lane to make your turn. I see so many people making left turns from the cart lane. I know of one person that did this and caused and accident. He got the ticket, not yielding right of way, $189.00 plus towing of his cart, damage to it and the other person's vehicle.

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

Just think, in a couple of months the visitors, renters, and snowbirds will be heading north. Then all the chatter concerning traffic will die down until next year.

Have a great day in The Villages.

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

The Villages Homeowners Association hosts a "Golf Cart Safety Clinic" the 3rd Wed. of each month at 10:00 at Savannah Center.

There are always people there to answer your questions.
It is a very informative program.

Re: Please don't stop at the gates.
 

I'm not so sure about that. Traffic concerns in the Villages are pretty much a year 'round thing. Very few peopl ever stop for stop signs and the speed limit signs a just suggestions.