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Originally Posted by ddeacon1 (Post 2147472)

I am trying to find out the height of the tunnels within the villages. I am scoping out some golf carts from others outside the bubble and wanted to make sure they would fit.

Here you go:

https://www.districtgov.org/communit...te%20Sheet.pdf

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Originally Posted by Dgodin (Post 2147740)

The article was in the ************** recently. A villager was coming through a tunnel riding towards the center with a lifted gold cart. A golf cart entering the tunnel from the opposite direction had to move closer to the edge to avoid the first cart and was wedged in.

Exactly. Like I said. Consider the source of the article. We still don't know how much he paid for his house.

Too many rollover accidents in The Villages. No way I would ever raise the center of gravity of my cart.

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Originally Posted by Psacc0 (Post 2147772)

Here you go:

https://www.districtgov.org/communit...te%20Sheet.pdf

A little late to the party. RIF

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Originally Posted by ddeacon1 (Post 2147472)

I am trying to find out the height of the tunnels within the villages. I am scoping out some golf carts from others outside the bubble and wanted to make sure they would fit.

Go to districtgov.com then Departments click District Property Management , left menu quick links, click golf car tunnel heights.

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Originally Posted by ddeacon1 (Post 2147472)

I am trying to find out the height of the tunnels within the villages. I am scoping out some golf carts from others outside the bubble and wanted to make sure they would fit.

Go to districtgov.com then Departments click District Property Management , left menu quick links, click golf car tunnel heights.

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Originally Posted by Bilyclub (Post 2147550)

Every tunnel listed. Put out by the District:

https://www.districtgov.org/communit...te%20Sheet.pdf

Interesting that the two lowest tunnels at 70" center height are South of 44, or is that a typo ?

Gotta be a typo. Our cart is 75” wouldn’t fit if it was only 70.” We go under it all the time and have plenty of room. We have scraped the side of our roof on that one on BV though.

Be careful in your research, all tunnel heights are not the same. I have flags on my cart and they hit the top of some tunnels and not others. Plus, the top of the tunnels are curved so the “centerline” height (which is the quoted height) is not uniform across the height and width of your cart.

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Originally Posted by Bilyclub (Post 2147550)

Every tunnel listed. Put out by the District:

https://www.districtgov.org/communit...te%20Sheet.pdf

Interesting that the two lowest tunnels at 70" center height are South of 44, or is that a typo ?

Great information. Thanks!

Some of the low number bridges are the lowest. B1 to Saddlebrook. I for one would not get a raised cart or one with oversized wheels.

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Originally Posted by DonH57 (Post 2147773)

Exactly. Like I said. Consider the source of the article. We still don't know how much he paid for his house.

It like the editor wants to prove that he/she knows how to do basic research.

Attachment 95472

The cart in question.

Drove him up the wall…

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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki (Post 2147625)

i would be careful. Don’t think it was worth the savings to this guy.

https://www.**************.com/2022/...-the-villages/

A golf cart driver escaped injury in a mishap Saturday at a tunnel in The Villages.

The Par Car golf cart got wedged in at Tunnel B-17 at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Southern Trace and Buena Vista Boulevard, near the Hawkes Bay Golf Course starter shack.

The man driving the golf cart began to enter the tunnel but a high-topper golf cart coming in the opposite direction was “hogging” the tunnel, according to a witness. The driver of the Par Car swerved to avoid the collision, but got wedged in the tunnel.

Community Watch was on the scene directing traffic away from the tunnel.

This was my husband. The woman driving towards him in the tunnel was DISTRACTED and over corrected her turn to avoid hitting the wall. In so doing, she veered towards my husband. He turned to avoid getting hit. He was just turning into the tunnel. The right front wheel caught and climbed the wall. It was standing on its back end and was wedged there. 8 men couldn’t budge it! After 45 minutes, it was winched out by Kart Aide.
Fortunately, Ron was unhurt.
The cart is totaled. The frame, axel and windscreen are twisted. The body is broken from metal pressure points giving way.
The driver continued on her way without stopping.
How kind of her.
It is a Par Car. Now, it’s a heap.

S
Don...he was cut off and forced to the side by an approaching cart who refused to move. Please read the **************.com for up to date information and stop wondering

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Originally Posted by ddeacon1 (Post 2147472)

I am trying to find out the height of the tunnels within the villages. I am scoping out some golf carts from others outside the bubble and wanted to make sure they would fit.

Just curious - do you have a tape measure - or did you ask the sales person where your looking?