A Community Development District supervisor has identified what he calls the most annoying speed bump in The Villages.
CDD 5 Supervisor Gerald Ferlisi said the pair of speed bumps on the multi-modal path at the entrance to the Village of Bridgeport at Lake Sumter are a real headache.
“I have heard from neighbors that those speed bumps are very annoying,” Ferlisi said.
He said he recently did a little research.
He said he counted 100 golf carts traveling over those speed bumps in less than an hour. During that same time, 11 cars and one golf cart came out of the gate on Ternberry Forrest Drive to Buena Vista Drive.
He said those speed bumps were put in place because drivers of automobiles had complained that they could not get through because of the many golf carts moving across the roadway at a rapid clip.
“This one seems to stick out more and seems to be inconsistent,” Ferlisi said at Friday’s CDD 5 board meeting.
The speed bumps are so annoying that boulders were put near them to prevent golf carts from driving around the speed bumps.
However, CDD 5 has no authority over those speed bumps as they are located in Community Development District 6.
The Project Wide Advisory Committee, which includes representatives from CDDs 5 through 10, is wrestling with the issue of speed bumps. For the moment, each CDD has authority over the speed bumps within their borders.
CDD 5’s PWAC representative, Chuck Wildzunas, said he would take Ferlisi’s concern to the committee.
Meanwhile, CDD 6 on Friday agreed to review the speed bumps within its jurisdiction.
