I have to agree on these points. I'm sure we are all guilty of speeding, and 15mph is slow, but if you hit someone and it is found you were doing 25 in a 15 zone, you don't have any legal excuse. I don't know what the penalty would be for injuring or even causing someone to lose their life in a situation like this, but it would be hard enough to live with if you were doing the speed limit and had no criminal charges filed against you. I can't imagine what it would be like to be speeding and hurt someone. I have found myself slowing down, even on my golf cart, while driving through neighborhoods because of this thread.

Ditto, macgolfnut

I think this is the key - it is just common sense to slow down when there are pedestrians, trucks, golf carts, etc on the road. While I tend to drive quite slow in a residential area, I can tell from observation that either the TOTV population is way outside the norm for TV or they are not aware of how fast that they do drive in residential areas. Most people drive at least 25 MPH.

speed
 

agree with you one hundred percent.15 is just to slow.

I applaud this thread if it has made some of us (and I include myself) more mindful of our speed in residential areas.

I agree Bare.

BUT

15 mph is not reasonable. You can't just say it's safer because by that logic 10 mph would be even safer. And 5mph would be even safer than that. Most new cars on a flat surface idle at about 10 mph. Where do they come up with 15? I would rather see 25 strictly enforced than 15 loosely enforced where 95% drive faster.

But let's all be cognizant of our surroundings and watch out for neighborhood foot traffic.

After reading this post I have been checking the entrances of the various villages and they all have speed limit signs - 10 mph for the villas and 15 mph for the others at the entrance.

What is wrong with obeying the speed limit? You have walkers, carts, cars and work trucks parked on the streets that make it hard to go around at a faster speed.

We are not in a hurry so hang up your cell phones and drive at the speed limit.

I would love to have a cop sit on my street and give tickets to the UPS and other delivery trucks - and the carts and cars that fly up and down the street.

I agree that the officer handled it professionally. I think the 15 mph is reasonable on neighborhood streets, but like many others, I did not realize that was the case. It's good to know.

If someone is not aware of the speed limit.......people are not reading the speed limit signs....how can they be aware of walkers, people on bikes or slow moving carts???

You are right that I should have been aware of the speed limit on neighborhood roads. Guess I was too busy looking out for walkers, people on bikes and slow moving carts.

Never did spot any slow moving carts.

Or talking on the cell phone.

So many times on different posts I read people writing how beautiful The Villages is, how well kept everything is. Why would anyone want to whiz by and miss it all. The 15 MPH is on side streets where people live and walk and bike. How far would anyone have to drive on a side street? I often wonder to myself, what's the hurry, we are over 55, most of us are retired. relax, lean back and enjoy this fantastic place. Slow down and wave to people that you don't even know. Go fast if you want to but, I will leave early when I am going and drive the speed limit coming back. The only time I go over the speed limit is when we take a trip. For some reason when we are coming home to The Villages, I suffer from lead foot. Just returned from Fort Myers. Please don't tell anyone but, my GPS said that I was doing on average about 80 MPH, as soon as I turned into The Villages almost every car passed me. HMMM I wonder why?????

30 mph
 

State law says on any residential street, the speed limit is 30 mph. If a municipality (county, city or town) wants to lower it, it must be posted using the state's guidelines as to where and how often the signs should be.

If the street's not marked with a 15 mph sign, then you could ask the judge to through it out as not legal notification.

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No, We Don't Need Speed Limits! Do We?
 

For those that say 15 mph is way too slow in residential areas, take a look at this photo. Try to remember that there are 80,000 seniors with (admit it or not) diminished vision and reflexes. Even parking lots, where you are not supposed to be traveling any faster than idle speed, can be deadly.

[Picture removed because of copyright infringement. -- tony]

I was a very bad boy. Mea Culpa I should not have reprinted the photo of a serious auto accident involving three cars and two drivers in a PARKING LOT in The Villages. The photo and ensuing caption was published in The Villages Daily Sun today, October 16 on page A9. The point that I was trying to make is that if serious, multi-car accidents can happen even in a parking lot, they are even more likely on our streets. Accordingly, we owe it to ourselves to minimize the risk. Strictly adhering to the moderate speed limits in The Villages is certainly a "free" way to help keep us all safer. And we all know that seniors love "free" stuff.

Please! Let's be careful out there!

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