Lowering the speed limit on 30A?

[Smiling JOe]

The first post suggests that people wanting to go 45mph should hit the feeder roads. I think that is interesting since no real feeder roads exists between 395 and the east end of 30A, where a good portion of 30A has the 45 mph speed limit. (Yes, WaterSound Parkway could be said to be a feeder road, but it is a long stretch from there to 395, and it may as well not exist.)

 

[seagrovegirl]

30A's purpose since being built is a thoroughfare for residents and visitors to get from point A to point B. It is a major thoroughfare, not a recreational path. LSV's are recreational vehicles. If LSV's are modified and improved to move faster, and crash equivalent to it's competition on the road, then I would have no problem with LSV's. My concern is the back up of traffic and recreational drivers in recreational vehicles on a MAIN thoroughfare for thousands of vehicles. This argument makes no sense for our community.

 

[seagrovegirl]

And why...are greenies so obnoxious??? The mentality baffles me and it hinders honest and open debate. Some of the golf carts on the road are owned by people who have invested in their second home McMansion, with a swimming pool, irrigation system and probably on a golf course that does not have a recycling irrigation system and pollutes our lakes with pesticides and fertilizers. So the going green argument is BS.

 

[Just Curious]

Damn it sorry Shallows, I didn't see the disclaimer at the bottom of your post (about the post being as a private citizen etc) - that you were not officially stating this as the tax authority.

Kurt, so you agree with Shallows on this? LSV's not to become allowed on the other 4 miles of 30-a? In a perfect world I'd like to see everyone walking, and biking etc... but to me, more LSV's mean less Toyota Land Cruisers... I am very surprised that it sounds like the majority of locals won't sacrifice 10 MPH in speed on 4 miles of 30-a, to support or encourage LSVs. I really don't have a dog in the hunt, I just think LSV like vehicles are what people need to be driving more of in this country, and I'd like to purchase one myself, if they were made more useful on 30a, by eliminating these little 45 MPH gaps. If I lived there, I might be more sensitive to speed limits being lowered, however small the stretch, but i don't think speed limits are really enforced or should be. If the road between camp creek and watersound is empty in the off season, but the sign now says 35 MPH max,,,, I say, go 45.

That world would suck.

 

[Zebraspots]

Why is one of these LSV's a better green option than driving a hybrid or another vehicle with great gas mileage?

 

[Smiling JOe]

They aren't better. They just make you feel like you are in a resort. They do take up less parking space than large autos, but people will have them in addition to the large cars, so they will need more parking space at their beach home, not less.

 

[Just Curious]

I have read it in a couple of different threads so far that this is being "pushed" by some higher ups or business. If you read the article this was a public workshop to discuss the idea, not push it on anyone, hosted by the Friends of 30-A. "The Friends of 30-A" is a group of citizens and business that live and are located along 30-A, not some government entity that has a secret mission. They have done a lot of work to help improve 30-A and we can thank them for 30-A being designated a Scenic Highway.
I don't think they are trying to create business for any particular company. I think they are trying to alleviate some of the traffic issues we have. The resoning is, if you allow LSV's to drive the entire distance of the road it will be that many fewer cars on the road.
I don't personally like the idea, because I don't want to be stuck behind them. Just picture what the scene would be like of an accident with an LSV and any automobile. But that was the intent of the meeting, and they are having another meeting so everyone can go and give their 2 cents there.
Out of cuirousity, Robertsondavies, were you at the meeting to push your viewpoint?

 

[Smiling JOe]

 

[seagrovegirl]

Another point is that Walton and Okaloosa County have a committee to research how to make traffic flow better and to find an alternate route due to congestion. So my question is: Why would the county allow LSV's to congest an already overly impacted county road, scenic or not. And, emergency vehicle response time is another concern.

 

[Geo]

Al Gore invented the golf cart!