Golf Carts in bike lanes? (Pittsburgh, Mexico: 2015, neighborhoods, live)

[tclifton]

This got me thinking...are golf carts allowed to travel in bike lanes like some of these places?

I know it won't work year round because of the weather, etc. but in the summer it could work.


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[selltheburgh]

I don't see why not except they are kind of wide and might get clipped by a car. I think anything over 50 CCs needs to be registered and have a license though. I know that's the law with mopeds and scooters.

[Rocket88]

Originally Posted by tclifton

This got me thinking...are golf carts allowed to travel in bike lanes like some of these places?

I know it won't work year round because of the weather, etc. but in the summer it could work.


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There would have to be limited areas where this can happen. Maybe some suburban areas could do it. The City Of Pittsburgh is too congested and has too much traffic. There is hardly enough room for cyclists. Golf carts are much wider and would pose a problem due to parked cars. Few Pittsburgh suburbs have sidewalks, so it would have to be in in an area with low speed limit, 25 mph or lower, and in low traffic area. Even if the carts rode in the bike lane, there still needs to be either agility or speed in the city, bikes have agility, cars have the acceleration. Golf carts have neither.

[Moby Hick]

Golf carts are legal on city streets (with lower speed limits) in some places (if they have the right lights and such). Ohio has this. It makes way more sense than in the bike lane. There's no reason driving a golf cart on a 25 mph road would be dangerous if people were actually driving 25 mph.

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[PIT2MAD]

I would like to see this on an intra-neighborhood scale in Pittsburgh. Along with cyclists, golf carts would encourage safe driving speeds on many streets. Hopefully we see more speed humps within the neighborhoods as well, there are too many cut-through streets where speed is a factor, and where it would better serve the residents of those neighborhoods to have slower safer streets designed for all to use, while not taking away from car usage just slowing it down a bit.

I was surprised the first few times I visited cities where the carts intermingle with traffic, but it works well. i don't necessarily want to see them going up Bieglow from downtown, but within certain neighborhoods it would be a great idea.

[Geeo]

Am I the only one who is thinking of the Seinfeld episode where George is pursued by the irate senior citizens in hover-rounds going about 2 miles per hour?

[ForYourLungsOnly]

Originally Posted by PIT2MAD

Hopefully we see more speed humps within the neighborhoods as well, there are too many cut-through streets where speed is a factor, and where it would better serve the residents of those neighborhoods to have slower safer streets designed for all to use, while not taking away from car usage just slowing it down a bit.

I never thought much about residential street speed humps until I moved to Chicago. They are everywhere in both neighborhoods I have lived in so far, and I love them. They are the super wide/less steep ones, so cars don't have to really come to an almost total stop, but they do slow down significantly. It is really nice to walk around in a tree lined residential neighborhood and not worry about cars coming down your little one way street at 40mph.

[erieguy]

This^^^^^^

[selltheburgh]

I love the idea of speed humps. If the city says concrete is too expensive, we could follow Mexico's lead and use ship rope:

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Originally Posted by tclifton

This got me thinking...are golf carts allowed to travel in bike lanes like some of these places?

It is illegal for a golf cart to ride in a BIKE lane. Come on people, we can't be this dumb, can we? Geez.