We walk that stretch on Reagan road every morning. A sidewalk would be nice but we take to the grass for that segment. I'm with you a sidewalk would make it easier. See you around :)

Joe

When you can't figure it out then it's always about money. There is your answer...

Don't know where you live but south of 44 we have MMP's.... Hundreds of miles of them. No need for sidewalks here.
As I recall the only place there are actually sidewalks in front of homes is in that one development by Lake Sumter Landing.

Nope. When you can't figure it out, it is usually about lack of information, or smarts.

Less to shovel.

“Sidewalks” are not really part of Southern culture…it’s called heat. In Georgia, they’re actually “auto recovery zones”…kid you not. There are some natives—we’ve been here close to 25 years and know many—who claim air conditioning ruined the South. Paved the way for Yankees…just sayin’

Agreed!

Utterly amazing…always like your responses.

Great topic, and what bugs me is when they walk 2 abreast. And NOT walking facing traffic (like I do) so they can step off the road onto the grass. But, NO....... stepping onto the grass is (literally and figuratively) beneath them! And then the commercial trucks just practically park in the middle of the street. And then the residents think that they should do the SAME. And what DO you have then folks......a SNIT-SANDWICH of an obstacle course for resident drivers. And WHY can't they pave a MERE foot of asphalt on both sides of the donkey trail streets.
........I would be happy with a foot of just SHELL on both sides, EVEN that would be an improvement.
.........And what would it hurt........nothing.....the residents would have slightly less grass to water and cut.

Yes, I can imagine - building sites would be marginally smaller and there would be somewhat less grass. And anyway few residents have the energy, ambition, and wherewithal to cut their own grass. So, what do they care -
they just pay the townies to do their WORK for them....... SO that they can get better tee times. And i am not asking for a FULL 3 ft wide sidewalk. I just want 1 foot on either side of the residential street donkey trails. And they can even be shell. I don't care..........I mean GIVE me something.....powers that be!!!!!!

Nobody walks????? The Villages is billed as the healthiest city in the US for seniors. Maybe I am imagining all the residents WALKING and BIKING every morning and evening past our house. I better talk to MY LYING EYES.
.....NOBODY WALKS.........maybe no golfers walk, but REAL PEOPLE walk and bike.
......The recreation news is filled with ACTIVITIES that people ACTUALLY SWEAT at. SSSSSOOOO nobody can tell ME that NOBODY walks. They might as well try to tell me that nobody in the Villages breathes or drinks alcohol or goes to church.

Simply widen the asphalt roads 1 foot on either side........easy - peasy!

I agree. That would be a MARGINAL concern.

That's WHY they need sidewalks because they are too narrow, donkey trails.

So basically, it is OK to KILL pedestrians on narrow roads because my nose might smell some bad things from dogs and that would offend me and stop me from entering HEAVEN.

Walkers do NOT watch out for vehicles. Many walk in a never-never LAND of confusion and senility. (often NOT even being smart enough to walk facing traffic as school children are taught. In my own neighborhood, there is a tall SEEMINGLY coherent man about age 55 that walks 2 large dogs on leashes. He BARELY controls them and he and the dogs routinely take up 1/2 of the residential street with LOTS of vehicle traffic.
.........go figure what the problem IS there.

In my street they go 40MPH in the 20 MPH area.

Around my area the streets are short and curved. By the time you put your foot on the accelerator you need to start breaking. Keeps the speed down.

I don't like the narrow donkey-trail streets inTV Land residential neighborhoods. But, I CAN think of one good reason why there are more sidewalks up NORTH than down here in Florida. Especially in the summer, Florida has more moisture in the clouds due to the greater HEAT and Humidity here vs up north. So, during the Florida summers we have HUGE thunderstorms and hurricanes dropping large amounts of water as compared to up NORTH.
........So, sidewalks in Florida would ADD greater area for the rain to hit and that water then RUNS off into the road creating road hazards and safety problems. The no sidewalks situation allows the greater RAIN in Florida's summers to penetrate down through the grass and dirt - the end result is less flooding in the road WITHOUT sidewalks than WITH sidewalks.

I doubt that that overnight street parking ban is enforced very much, TV land does NOT have enough Police so it is sort of a wild west, catch as catch can approach to everything!

Because so few are needed.

No one ever said, I’m spending $500,000 on that house because it has great sidewalks.

Welllll… that’s not quite accurate. When I looked for a house I checked on the map where I could live where I could go to the pool etc on a sidewalk. Not necessarily from my house, but relatively close to one. So yes, it was a significant factor in the location of the house. It’s not that I would spend $100,000 more - it’s that I wouldn’t consider a no-sidewalks location at all.

Which locations in the Villages did you avoid because you could not go to the pool on a sidewalk?

It was not a matter of avoiding, my parents had a seasonal house on the historic side - no sidewalks but also little traffic. My uncle had a house in district 1. No sidewalks, first 2 decades that he lived there not much traffic then last decade more and more traffic more and more dangerous to walk on the street. I didn’t like that. So I looked on Google map where exactly the sidewalks, pools, anything I’d like to walk to, are located. It was not the ONLY factor in the selection of a house, but these days I’m thankful I did.

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Response posted in the wrong thread.

Good for you!

Instead of obsessing over the color of the backsplash or some other minor feature of your house, you actually thought how it would be to live in that house on a daily basis. If you have anything to be "thankful" for, it is your own good common sense.

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Well said. I also give a 'good for you'.

It wont work, need to take the text, and replace the word DOT with an actual .

If i put tha tactual link in, TIOTV would have deleted it

You mean like this? TOTV doesn't delete Villages links.

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multi-modal paths
 

We all think of the paths that go everywhere as golf cart paths. TV refers to them as multi-modal trails meaning for use by carts, bikes and people. In some places, you will even see "cart", "Bike", "Red" painted on the pavement. So TV sees it as plenty of walking area especially with the addition of side walks and walking trails where golf carts can't go.

So, show of hands, how many people are comfortable walking through the multi modal tunnels?

Or across the bridges?

Seems the design intent was to discourage walkers much less the disabled (ADA).

that's what it is, our roads are pretty narrow now, can you imagine if sidewalks were installed. agree completely

I'd imagine that if they -did- put them in, it would be on the grass side if the curb that is already installed. Not extending into the completed streets...

The new bridges.........................thank the FDOT.

I would feel comfortable (safe) doing both. Though I really can't think of a reason I would walk across one of the four bridges - it would be a long walk to get to any destination.

Agreed... Even if they had a separate pedestrian path across the bridges, I can't, for the life of me, imagine ever wanting to walk over them...