To the Editor:
A big problem with driving in The Villages is that most drivers have their head up their ass and are not paying attention. The streets and multi-modal trails have a mixture of cars, golf carts, motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, walkers and roller-bladers. Add to that visitors and older, often slower, drivers and you have an environment that requires a driver’s full attention.
In my experience, the driver of a larger vehicle tends to not give proper right of way to a smaller vehicle, even when the smaller vehicle clearly has the right of way, i.e. car and golf cart, or golf cart and bicycle. Villages-News.com has published several videos that clearly demonstrate this problem. Just this morning I was riding my bicycle west on Madero Drive when a jerk in a golf cart going east made a left turn onto Chaparral Drive right in front of me. This is not the first time this has happened to me at the same intersection. So, yes, I am very cautious. As the good sergeant on Hill Street Blues always said, “Let’s be careful out there.”
John Peters
Village of Santiago
