[memason]

Originally Posted by thekeithfan

The safety of Driving down El Camino Real in a licensed golf cart is like comparing an Army foot soldier to a Tank! You are NOT safe. I suggest you look up the police reports involving cart accidents and see how many are severly, permanently injured or disabled. Do you have a right to drive there? YES! But you can't tell me your 1000 pound cart is any match when colliding with a vehicle weighing 3 to 4 times what the cart weighs! Golf carts driving down El Camino and going thru roundabouts look stupid....dangerously stupid.

By this rationale, I guess we shouldn't drive on the Interstate highways with the 90,000lb. trucks, in our 4,000lb car.

This is the Villages....Golf carts are supposed to be everywhere.

[EdV]

Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer

....Would it not make more sense to move onto a 16 foot wide rec path that hardly has any traffic....

The multi-modal paths are maintained by the amenity funds and are for use by TV residents only. So that is why I use the public roads whenever I venture into TV from next door.

[fast/sloEddie]

A big egoooooo trip lol !!

[rhood]

Originally Posted by fast/sloEddie

A big egoooooo trip lol !!

You are exactly right ! ! ! I don't care if I'm safe or not, I have the right to drive on the road and I'm going to do it. Seems like that is the prevailing thought. Not me ! !

[EdV]

Originally Posted by fast/sloEddie

A big egoooooo trip lol !!

No Einstein, it’s not an ‘egoooooo’, it’s an E-merge.

But I am impressed by the fact that I got someone to join TOTV just to dis me.

[EdV]

The facts are that there are now over 2,151 streets in TV and only 5 of them have multimodal paths. A handful of others have a diamond lane for carts. So that leaves more than 2,000 streets in TV that force carts, cars and big trucks to share the road equally.

Golf carts are built for use on golf cart paths. LSV’s are built for use on roads and by law have additional safety features. In addition to three point seat belts, my Tomberlin LSV has a heavy duty roll bar designed to reduce the likelihood of a rollover or crushed roof which complements the safety provided by the seat belts.

Given these facts, one has to wonder why anyone who buys a cart for use in TV wouldn’t spend the extra money to purchase and insure an LSV for the inherent additional margin of safety that it provides.

[rhood]

Originally Posted by EdVinMass

The facts are that there are now over 2,151 streets in TV and only 5 of them have multimodal paths.

There are more than five North of 466. Don't know how many are South of 466?

Post number 25 hit the nail on the head. Here it is:
Is it a FULL MOON or what ????

The amount of just plain wrong info, on here, is amazing.

Just saying....

[EdV]

Buena Vista, Morse Blvd, El Camino Real, 466, Stillwater Trail, that’s five. Ok, Glenview Rd. which is an extension of El Camino makes six.

So name a few that I missed to back up your statement.

[rhood]

El Camino Real
Buena Vista
Morse Blvd. West
Paradise Park and parking area
Connection between Southern Trace and tunnel
Saddlebrook trail to the tunnel
Addition of path between Morse Blvd West path and El Camino Real path


VCDD Multi-Modal Path System

[EdV]

No, you’re misquoting me. I was referring to the number and names of the streets that have multi-modal paths, not to the names of the sections of paths themselves, nor to single purpose tunnels.

But enough nitpicking. There are over two thousand streets in TV without paths or cart lanes and I think it’s a bit hypocritical of some people to call LSV folks crazy yet think nothing of flying down the road in a regular cart with a grandchild in the passenger’s seat and nothing to prevent them from becoming a guided missile through the windshield.

[rhood]

OK, I'll concede the point. And if you want to drive on the roads, have at it. Just doesn't seem safe to me to go 20 or 25 on Buena or Camino in a cart. Even though you have brakes and seat belts, etc, it's still a cart. Nuf said!

[EdV]

Some more to think about. The only direct way to get between Spanish Springs and Lake Sumter Landing in a cart is via Morse Blvd. That road is only 16ft wide in each direction. The diamond lane for carts is only 7ft allowing only about 9ft for cars and trucks. But El Camino and Buena Vista are around 22ft. allowing 11ft. for each lane. So I actually feel safer on those roads than Morse Blvd.

But if I were a TV resident, I would probably take advantage of the safer multi-modal paths when they’re available which was the question raised by the original poster.

[looneycat]

Crash Safety of Low-Speed Vehicles Questioned: #evworld

'nuff said
even a collision with a SMART CAR would be fatal!!!

[Joaniesmom]

Well put, Captain!

[thekeithfan]

Originally Posted by memason

By this rationale, I guess we shouldn't drive on the Interstate highways with the 90,000lb. trucks, in our 4,000lb car.

This is the Villages....Golf carts are supposed to be everywhere.

On the highway, in my truck or car I have airbags, etc and can with stand a sizable impact