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Study discussing 301 from the Turnpike south.

https://www.cflroads.com/project-fil...Evaluation.pdf

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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna (Post 2112014)

It’s called not enough north-south road capacity in The Villages. Your only choices to go south of 44 are Morse and 301. Buena Vista dead ends at 44. At the rate houses are being built south of 44 the traffic isn’t going to get any better. Current plans are for more than 50,000 more houses in the ‘south end’ by 2028.

Traffic such as you’re experiencing is one of the reasons we moved here from ‘up north’.One suggestion might be to figure out how to minimize or eliminate trips from south of 44 to other locations in the northern end of The Villages. Find all the things you need further south—or take the Toll Road or I-75 and shop or eat in Ocala.

Buena Vista is being extended to intersect with Meggison which may help. But for now, you can take a right at 44 off of Buena Vista and take Meggison.

Meggison will eventually go down to Rte 470, (Central Blvd) but for now, you can take a right on Warm Springs, a left on Marsh Bend Trail to go all the way to 470.

Another traffic problem on 301 is due to the dirt racing track. When there is a big competition it is backed up in both directions for miles. These are usually on Saturdays so I avoid 301 on Saturdays.

Both 301 and Marsh Bend Trail are being widened to four lanes. It will probably be quite a while before that happens. If you live in the southern area, you'l eventually find ways to get around while avoiding traffic.

One of the routes I'll often take when I have to or want to go up north is to take Meggison up to 44, turn left and then turn right on Powell. Powell eventually intersects with 301 avoiding a lot of the high traffic areas.

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Originally Posted by VApeople (Post 2112006)

We live in The Villages so we don't need to drive on the roads out in the "real world" like U.S. 301, U.S. 441, and U.S. 27.

We only need to venture where Buena Vista and Morse can take us.

Tiny world. Boring.

Holiday traffic always backs up where the Turnpike and I 75 merge at Wildwood. This problem makes 301 a problem. There is no simple solution- too many vehicles and not enough traffic lanes to accommodate them.

Ordinarily that is true. Yesterday they had the northbound lane closed down for some undetermined reason just south of the turnpike.

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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna (Post 2112014)

Buena Vista is being extended across 44 as we speak onto Meggison , also 501 goes south to 470. and 301 is going to be re-routed just south of Warm Springs.

The Villages Road Conditions with Driving and Traffic Flow - LocalConditions.com

These kind of web-sites are helpful. As long as your passenger or backseat drivers do the website browsing.

Stubborn ol’ folks

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Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 2112040)

Doubt it would help most. The true believers in anything----greedy developers, climate change, flat earth, etc are so committed to their ignorant, uninformed opinions that they would simply state they were being lied to at the meeting.

Yes, stubborn old folks on both sides of the “spectrum”. “The difference between an educated person and a wise person is that a wise person has the ability to change their mind.” I just made that up.

We could have built our next water view lot dream home in DeLuna, but turned it down. Didn’t want to deal with 301. But that is just our wants and needs.

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Originally Posted by VApeople (Post 2112085)

No problem. As usual, Bob Dylan has the answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMF3phP5-M

Awesome song.
Haven't heard it in ages.

Written by Bob Dylan, sang by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Living north of 466 looks better and better every day!

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Originally Posted by thelegges (Post 2112179)

We could have built our next water view lot dream home in DeLuna, but turned it down. Didn’t want to deal with 301.

I think that was a very wise decision.

Wait until they start selling houses south of Monarch Grove. Those houses will be near to Sawgrass Grove and Eastport and it will be an easy drive to Magnolia Plaza.

Trucks that are overweight use 301 to avoid I 75 weigh stations. Delivery truck told me

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Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 2112040)

So true, it's human nature ! People "dig in", also, it's very difficult for some people to accept they've been duped, fooled, or, just made a mistake. The recent Covid pandemic for instance, just look at the actions of various groups of people. The number of people who have no idea of even the most basic golf course respect (like knowing WHERE to enter and leave a sand tarp, to take a golf cart around and BEHIND the green so as not to further delay the next group while you exit the green IN FRONT and hold up play, it goes on and on. Unless they make an introduction to the villages a mandatory thing (like muster on a cruise...LOL !), it will never improve. If made mandatory (would never happen of course) it would help "some", but human nature being what it is, never going to reach perfection.