The city of golf carts
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Some American cities use buses, or trams, or trains. Peachtree City, Georgia, has a different solution: it's not quite public transit, but a hundred miles of golf cart tracks helps to keep cars off the road.
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Edited by Michelle Martin / @onthecrux
With thanks to Titan Miller for emailing me the idea, back in 2017!
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The Georgia road trip continues! Thanks to Mayor Fleisch and her team for their time. I realise that the golf carts aren't directly comparable to public transit - for a start, they're privately-owned - but I'd say that replacing cars with slower-speed, electric vehicles is at least an improvement!
I just want to make it abundantly clear that this is not the only city that does this. This is very common in Minnesotan towns, as many neighborhoods are right next to golf courses. I know this is common practice in Minnetrista, every home has golf carts.
You went to my college and now my hometown. Thanks for coming through Georgia!
You should do a talk in Atlanta! I didn't know you were in Georgia.
Great video. It would be interesting to know if the air in the city is noticeably cleaner than in a comparable sized one.
Oh wow! You went right behind my parents house!
I live in peachtree city and there is no secret racing gangs on golf carts, however I will be fulfilling this goal and starting one
Please update us when you finish, my friend
Flint 25 I have 3 ppl so far and we’ve raced at a construction site does that count?
i live in atl can i join
Winner McDinner nice, everyone in this town drives before theyre allowed to xd, including me
I also do
Prohibited in Peachtree City:
• littering of banana peels
• throwing objects at other cart drivers
• drifting
• blue shells
Nice :D
Damn, my plan 😭 didn’t say anything about squids though 🦑😈
Nah blue shells are fine, they only get the buggers who remove the limiters.
But don't you dare use lightning. :)
zebezd: No lightening? So driving under the influence of some magic mushrooms is fine? 🍄 What about shrinking other cart drivers? 😈
Removing the limiter is like being the bullet bill
The fact that Tom just casually eats his McDonalds in the middle of the interview amuses me to no end. The bit from 3:32 to 3:43 was especially hilarious with that crumb drop.
It's that British feeling of obligation to immediately eat any food that your host gives you, even if you are riding in a golf cart with the mayor you are supposed to be interviewing
@@user-qj9sg7wr4z is it then the American feeling of obligation to treat your guests to drive through McDonald's? :)
@@MaartenvanHeek Old Southern tradition involves treating houseguests to food or a meal as part of being a hospitable host.
It just so happens as the mayor, her house is the town, and McDonald's happened to be in her pantry.
The plump mayor insisted.
@@MaartenvanHeek Tom obviously paid as we saw him get his greenbacks out.
I was in school when they were filming this and i remember our whole class staring out the window
Ok.
why would they?
@@bloodeleine Becuase it's frickin Tom Scott
@@bloodeleine Because your mayor is doing laps in the parking lot with Tom Scott right outside your window. You're clearly not from a small town.
False Flag I call 2,500 or less a village. In the UK I think, 2,500 to about 20,000 is a small town. 20,000 to 50,000 a medium town, and 50,000 to 110,000 a large town. Although in the UK cities are rarer and most, if not all towns, have mayors.
Oh I bet there’s some crazy cart races after school
Mario cart georgia
The banana peels on the tracks is gonna be out of control.
There are none bro the traffic around McIntosh is insane
Where's my remake of Grease
They don’t go fast and the speed limit is 25. Cops are more than happy to give out tickets, trust me.
3:03
"The brakes on this are very good, I'm sorry...."
- "It's better than the alternative"
If that's not a typical Tom Scott answer I don't know what is ;)
* brakes
I don't completely understand the exchange, what is "the alternative"?
@@littlefrank90 not driving, walking
@@littlefrank90 the alternative is the brakes not being so good, meaning it would be dangerous
I think the 'distracted by ducks' is also up there for very 'Tom Scott' thing to say.
This place looks amazing if you're into electric skateboards.
I have an electric beer crate and use it here in germany on the cycle paths... The rozzers hate it tho, so always trying to avoid them :(
My plan is to get a one wheel and ride the paths here later next year. They've been childhood bike trails as well, a cheap bike can substitute any other motor vehicle for transport if you don't need the carrying space :)
@@localatticus4748 Unfortunately, I live here and anything motorized is prohibited on the paths (other than registered golf carts of course).
@@sinclairal I never knew that, glad I didn't try without looking that up. I've still got a bike I need to fix up to ride on them anyway
Or cycling.
I just love how the Mayor themselves were so kind to show Tom around during their interview, as well as even grabbing some food on the way!
I went to highschool there. 80% of injuries among boys aged 15-17 were flipped-golfcart related
I'm just picturing Marty McFly's "Nobody Calls Me Chicken" moment. In a golf cart.
*oh gosh but a golf cart delorean though*
😂😂
I bet someone watched Regular Show and tried to make the spin trick.
How often did those injuries occur though?
better than a flipped cat accident
Goes to America, gets McDonalds in a golf cart
"Only in America!!!"
Well that’s the true American experience.
Tech With Gabe Y E S
It's considered to be rude talking with food in your mouth!
I wonder if they have golf cart police officers with lights on top and a siren
"Sorry, I got distracted by ducks."
He's becoming James Veitch!
I hope not...
Type in tom scott ducks into youtube and enjoy
Omg haha yes
We need to talk about the bathroom ducks.
@@thelessercat The bathroom ducks?
THE DUCKS IN THE BATHROOM.
"The City of Golf Carts" was almost subtitled "Tom Scott Eats a Cheeseburger"
It looked like an egg McMuffin or a breakfast item
Yellow wrapper, not a burger. Probably a McChicken.
@@KentHambrock In my region of the US, the cheeseburgers have yellow wrappers.
It was most certainly an egg McMuffin, but to clear up confusion;
Cheeseburgers have yellow wrappers, McChickens also have yellow wrappers but they're slightly bigger, McDoubles and double cheeseburgers have a white wrapper, and McMuffins have a yellow wrapper.
you can see quite clearly its an egg mcmuffin
I grew up here.
Yes Tom, at 15 we did remove the limiters from our carts. Golf cart drifting was a local sport. Things did get out of hand, but most of us made it out alive.
„Most“
You live in a very lovely city.
In the Netherlands we've got a network like this spanning the entire country, except for the all the golf carts.
We call it "bicycle infrastructure."
this!
They CAN do it apparently, but only for gold carts, wow....
@@ElynevanOpzeeland the whole country of the Netherlands is like a quarter of the size of one state in the USA....
@@user-pc9rz2tl7l So what? How is this related to the feasibility of bike infrastructure?
Bek houden josti
That's real convenient for the next German invasion. They like bikes and make little tiny tanks now.
I'm a biker myself (although I do have a drivers license), but I definitely can see the advantages of the golf carts. For example when it's raining, you can still go out and about and be quite protected from the rain. When you are shopping, I bet you can load more bags in the cart than I can on my bike.
If I lived there I'd probably use the bike on nice days where I don't have to fill my bike up, and the cart when it's a rainy day and/or when I need to shop a lot of grocerys.
I actually live here, and it’s great! Picking up groceries from Walmart in a golf cart is an experience, and it never gets old no matter how many times you do it. And yes: people bike on the paths all the time, it’s encouraged!
It's great that you can ride a golf cart to Walmart. Can you also access the downtown area with a golf cart. Also how about accessing the hospital, the movie theater and restaurants. In other words can you do without a car and just use a golf cart?
@@57atk2lr Most of the central areas of the city are accessible by the paths! Anything not directly within the city's limits you can't get to, however, so quite a few things are a mile or two out of reach. The golf cart can get you a good majority of places with little to no traffic, especially with a larger battery, but it's really no replacement for a car.
Definitely makes for good driving practice, though!
Are there rules or restrictions regarding disabilities like getting a driving license for the roads? e.g. could someone with a condition like epilepsy drive a golf cart?
Rip Walmart
Could you use an electric go-kart, or is it strictly golf carts of the style seen in the video?
One thing that is not mentioned is that this system will save a ton of wear on the traditional roads, making maintenance cheaper. This is a really good solution for individual transportation.
Daniel Cooper the roads here still suck
You should talk to the mayor :)
These paths are probably cheaper to build, since the pavement doesn't need to be as thick to accommodate heavy tractor-trailers
Cars provide basically no wear on the roads, it's the heating and cooling over the seasons that do almost all the damage
@@Chasing100 and the garbage trucks.
someday I'm going to hear Tom outside my house talking about my neighborhood and how there's a lake of toxic acid under it
And you're Not going to say where you live??
@@Ocker3 I believe it was a joke.
@@Ocker3 The point of the joke is you wouldn't know there was such a thing until it was too late (like Tom showing up with some new found research). It's obviously a joke.
@@Unknown_Ooh thing is, many places where people still live are almost hell holes. So, sometimes joke, sometimes just brutal reality.
If I had to give an educated guess probably Michigan. They have had a few massive chemical spills throughout the years that still leach into the water system
So much potential. Imagine if the exact same greenway path network was utilized as bike infrastructure by installing bike racks everywhere. This has the potential to become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the US, and it could be a good model for adapting bike paths to low-density American-style suburbs.
It already is good bike infrastructure. I’ve ridden through a few times. It’s just very hilly so it doesn’t surprise me that people take the carts instead of a bike
Step 1: Get a golf cart
Step 2: Remove the limiter
Step 3: Lower it until you become one with the ground
Step 4: Remove top pieces
Step 5: Go(lf)-kart
Step 6: ???
Step 7: PROFIT!!
Hotel: Trivago
Step 6: Karting champ
Step 7: Formula 4
Step 8: Formula 3
Step 9: Formula 2
Step 10: Formula 1
Step 11: Win Grand Prix
Step 12: Win Championship
Step 13: Profit!
chavs there be like that
+ ultra bass
+ spoiler
+ led strips
+ xenon headlights
+ flames paintjob
+ converted exhaust
+ chrome rims
VW go(lf) kart gt
I worked at a golf cart retailer and for fun we did all that an changed the rear gearing, cart went 0-50mph in 4 seconds.
That’s like a golf course maintenance cart (except they aren’t earth benders)
"You can't have a quarter of a cart network" I really wish my local council were capable of that kind of logic. They decided to build a cycle path the the next town and successfully completed their plan.
At no point did they ask the other town to build a cycle path to join theirs though.
So it's literally a path that goes nowhere, it heads towards the other town and then stops dead on the boarder.
Well done, money well spent. You must feel proud of you accomplishment every time you *drive* past it.
Technically, you could just keep going if your bike is capable.
Haha, so true, these kinds of things happen all the time here (Germany). Sucks. And even if there's technically a whole network, huge parts of it simply suck and thus qualify as "only quarter of a network" in my opinion.
I know a town that only made a bike path downtown. As soon as you leave downtown the bike path ends.
And they got rid of the sidewalks on one side of the street to do it.
You can bet they got stinking rich off of that bicycle path to nowhere. They are very proud of themselves for skimming all that money off the project!
Bureaucracy leads to wishful thinking and just getting what you can get.
Wow this is amazing; I had no idea this existed! But with this kind of path infrastructure, why are they using golf carts and not electric microcars, like the Birò? These are very common here in Amsterdam and they're much nicer to ride than golf carts (but a similar size or even smaller).
The golfcarts are mainly a legacy vehicle left over from the town being mostly golf courses. And the multi use paths was the town's attempt to keep people from driving golfcarts on car roads for obvious safety concerns.
Personally i think most small towns should have a multiuse path network within the village limits. (Maybe without the golfcarts)
I was going to send you this video because I was just amazed i did not see one bicycle in this entire video, and was curious about your thoughts on this. To me (as a Dutchee) it's kind of laughable that no-one is riding one, even though these paths look perfect to do so.
Fun fact: while typing this, Bicycle race - Queen played on the radio 🤣
@@Ruben-ol2tc Hello, I live in peachtree city. I went to the high school in the video. Many people do ride bikes in peachtee city. However it is seen more as an activity rather than transportation, which is a common mentality in the states, so if it’s a crappy day people will probably use cars or golf carts instead. If this were filmed in may instead of december you would likely see more bikes.
cuz in america we have golf carts by the ton and we have no tiny microcars.
I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU, I KNEW YOU'D BE HERE
I lived here for over 26 years. A most unusual city. I loved having a golf cart.
Ducks really are Tom’s weakness, aren’t they?
And squirrels.
Ducks and apparently Egg McMuffins!
The question is, did Tom go to York because of the ducks, or did ducks become a thing at York?
Anatidophiliacs disgust me.
He’s a bit of a quack
You passed my school and even got my cart in the shot. Wish I woulda known you were coming, Im a fan of your content. Keep it up
Which cart was it?
Andrew Kart drifting his cart
I like your name
Are you related to Mario Kart?
Did you see me hiding under your cart?
"The breaks are very good"
*"It's better than the alternative"*
Britishness level: Queen at teatime with a crumpet
*brakes
@@decidiousrex you know how yanks are with spelling!
How is that British?
I just hoped somebody would point out this lovely moment :D I dunno whether this is typical British, but I just love it :D
how is this british?
"Hey, great bycicle infrastructure you built there!"
Americans: Nope, we just use smaller cars
Atleast they're electric.
@@PouLS But where does the electricity come from???
@@lucabanks6581 good old americain coal
Everything is spread out. Ptc is fairly hilly as it’s near the Appalachian mountains. When it’s 100 degrees in the summer with 100 percent humidity I don’t feel like getting soaked in sweat just to go somewhere when I could hop in a car or on a golf cart and make it to my destination far quicker.
@@ryanjohnson8340 Why do you think everything is spread out
4:12 -"Sorry, I got distracted by ducks." Seems so be a recurring theme :p just watched the golden ducks story again yesterday :p
That's just what I thought when I saw it.
and the vfx breakdown park bench :)
Deep down, Mad Captain Tom is still missing Brian the Duck.
Well distracted by some kind of birds anyways
Wish you would have interviewed the high school kids.
Yea we were in school we all knew about it and wanted to be apart of it
"Be honest, is there an underground racing network I can bet on?"
What would you like to know? I grew up there, AMA 😂
@@florianfirlus4638 is there a underground golf cart racing scene?
@@roseroseroserose We live our life one quarter mile at a time.
There wasn't when I was there, but we did try and take the top speed governor off (it's possible on some brands, but not on others) so we could haul ass down hill. The brake comment in the video hit home for that reason 😂
There's a few cities like this in the USA. The most well known is The Villages in Florida which is a huge retirement community. They have special lanes for golf carts and they have the right of way. It's not uncommon to get cut off by some elderly person in a golf cart when driving there (I used to all the time for business). There's also a few cities that allow them on public roads as part of the city ordinance, Lake Helen is one.
"sorry I got distracted by ducks"
Tom Scott is my spirit animal
Wow new Mario Kart looks cool!
Mario Golf Kart Ultimate
Mario Cart
*Deluxe (it's on the switch)
As is a Rubik's Cube avatar! ;-)
I was born and raised in Peachtree City, GA! I had the best childhood ever...
Chelsea Carlson same
We moved to PTC back in 1975,Lived in Wynnmeade.
Seeing Tom bob around the woods eating takeaway is just one of the most wholesome memes
Every used, removed and abandoned railroad track in America should be transformed into paths like this for everyone to use and enjoy.
Great idea thank you for sharing.
Also My property years ago boarded a railroad track that had been removed and I kept it maintained just like my yard, it was great.
Had everyone maintained their portion then several subdivisions would have been able to go that route 5+ miles to the closest store or restaurant other than the Little General, sure would have been nice.
Once again thanks and best of luck with all your adventures.
Be safe and live a happy life.
Haven't you heard of RAILS TO TRAILS ?
With all the wisdom, anecdotes and general wonderful videos that come from you, Tom, the single shot of you eating a McD's breakfast sandwich is arguably my favorite shot of you ever because it proves you're human and not a quasi-internet-god.
I live in the next city over and we always joke that they give you a golf cart when you move in.
Let me guess, Newnan?
Nfactorial, I've *reported* you for not being funny.
Why not link up? It's also great for bikes and walkers it seems.
As someone who lives in Mississippi, it's nice to hear someone I can tell is Southern. It's not the older accent or the stereotyped accent people know, it's the real one that ordinary people have nowadays. (Though, even that one isn't as common among the youth. I think only a third or a quarter of my friends have any distinguishable accent.)
This seems like the right sized city for a mayor who's also an excellent tour guide and public champion of their city. Tom sure didn't need to talk much.
Hmm. I like this actually. This is a really neat system.
And it teaches kids how to drive before they get a real car and get stupid with it. :-)
That second line is what I really like about this.
@GunsOfThePhoenix you should mention the incident where the poor kid got paralyzed in a golf cart accident.
It doesn't matter how much experience I have in driving, ill still be stupid and spin out, burn out and donuts.
@@thesalamilids That sounds more like an irresponsible person than a new driver
@its_supra_time you should also mention the accident where the kid got killed in a car, and that other kid got killed in another car, and those 4 kids got killed in another car accident, and when etc.
Maybe you should do a trip to one of these Airplane towns. Towns in the US, where the main street is just one big runway and people park their plane in their driveway, where you park your car. These are amazing
CheatyTycoon 2 look up "Alaska".
@CheatyTycoon 2: Look up John Travolta's house in Ocala, Florida. It is part of a development like that.
....
Wait what? O_0
Usually referred to as a Residential Airpark, or occasionally a "Fly-In Community". Those are the terms that will probably return the best Google results.
Wtf? Care to share a link or article?
Lmao even the mayor did a rolling stop at the end
You need to see "The Villages" in Florida. Golf Courses galore and carts everywhere
Is that Ocala? They have a lot there.
Goes to show if you design a city around a transportation system people will use it. We just need to design more cities to be bike friendly.
I think golf carts are a little better because a lot of people don't like sweating before they arrive somewhere and this also allows people who might not be able to ride a bike on the network. Golf carts could be powered by solar stations as well.
@@mofo888 but there are more health benefits to biking. Plus its cheaper and requires less space. And if everybody bikes to work they will have showers there.
@@mofo888 Yes, that's right, but there's still a (huge) difference if you build cities around bikes and public transportation or if you build them around large roads and cars.
I live in a German city where 80% of all trips inside the city are done by foot, bikes and/or public transportation.
We have a large network of bicycle paths and public transportation, and the city is constantly expanding it.
Fair points @@cobaltno51
I feel like a lot European towns have the benefits of having built things on 'foot traffic' scale, if that makes sense. Most legacy infrastructure in the US is build around the car already, it's an expensive obstacle to overcome. @@MrJonton01
Am I the only one thinking Leslie Knope would be friends with this mayor if given the opportunity?
I thought that too! I guess because I've been binge watching Parks & Rec lately 😂.
this mayor sucks
like really sucks
The mayor is nice too
The golf carts reminded me A LOT of Eagleton, so idk.
My dad grew up in Peachtree City and my grandparents still live there, I can't tell you how cool it is to see it in a UA-cam video! Most residents of Atlanta don't even know about it.
The villages in Florida are basically all about the golf carts too.
Ok now i know i'm getting old because that looked like a lot of fun
stiimuli
I’m still a teen and it looks fun so you’re good.
Why would you have to be old to find that fun?
Those paths look so good for bicycles too!
Lets be honest, I love cycling, do it every day, but would you leave a golf cart? I can imagine the carts being a lot of fun
Ssst America doesn't understand what that means :)
They sure are! Tons of people bike on those paths. They also got a bunch of cool extra paths that are specifically for biking.
Sure, for as long as all the 14yos with unrestricted golf carts are in class.
@@gideonkloosterman of course I would! I love my bike and I come from a country where biking is a very common form of transportations. Maybe I'd get a golf cart for when it's winter though 😀
I've been watching Tom for years and i just now found this video. I've lived about 15 minutes away from Peachtree City my entire life, so it was so cool to see Tom driving around, because i recognized all the places
Liberty Lake Wa, is the same way. 3400 residents 5 golf courses and the city seperated from Spokane, wa in 2001. Golf carts a #1. Gas powered bikes #2 and gas and electric scooters #3. Great place to check out in the PNW
All these comments along the lines of "they should use bikes instead!" are missing the point that the city-wide network would not exist without the carts. Since the paths offer multi-mode transportation, the city was able to raise the taxes necessary to build and maintain the paths. If they had tried to raise taxes for a bike-only path network, the city government would likely not have been successful. The network is as extensive as it is because of the golf carts.
Thanks for highlighting this
I think carts are a great idea. Try doing your weekly shopping in one trip on a bicycle
Yes. They might as well criticize people for driving cars when roads can handle bikes even better than a bike path. It's a non-sensical argument.
Europeans don't generally understand the scale of North America. This small town is wider than the entirety of downtown Amsterdam.
I think the other advantage is every cart on the cart path is one less petrol powered vehicle on the roads. Golf carts don't have the high barrier to entry that full electric cars have and it is extremely practical to take your golf cart for groceries / inner-city transport and use your car exclusively for your out-of-network trips.
So sad we couldn't see the high school traffic jam!
I still take the bus because of that traffic jam
Filming random kids might have been legally problematic.
no. do not be sad, be happy that you didn't see it...
I live around the corner from Peachtree City. They recently had this nighttime flea market event, and my god. The parking was insane. I had never seen so many golfcarts at once, there had to be thousands.
Imagine your date picking you up in a golf cart😂😂
that's not just a date- that's a future spouse right there
it's a reality here lmao
Wouldn't be seen as weird or off putting since it's the norm there .
I'd have a full Prius-style personal hybrid vehicle with a 6.5 HP predator engine...
Is there a more perfect way to describe Tom Scott than "Sorry, I was distracted by ducks"
That could be his epitaph when the time comes...
When you get down to it, a golf cart is just a low-speed electric vehicle optimized for local use. Makes sense to me.
The city of Avalon on Catalina Island in California does something similar. Most residents drive golf carts or similarly-sized vehicles.
Catalina wine mixer!!!
What a great city and your Mayor is priceless, treasure her.
There are places in Australia this has been done but nothing even close to this scale, the locals are very lucky indeed.
This is brilliant! Less people on the actual road , less pollution, and more paths to take with your bike , jog or just walk.
My dream was always to have a big enough house that I could have a path around the property where I could drive a golf cart. This video is heaven to me.
A duck cast distraction on Tom Scott and it was super effective!
I live in a golf retirement community in Arizona. Sun City, Sun City West, Sun City Grand. Golf carts both gas and electric share the road with full size cars and trucks. Maximum speed limit within the community is 35 mph and the carts have lights, turn signals, horn and seat belts and a speed limiter of 25 mph. Gas carts get 40 mph with a 5 or 6 gallon tank, electric carts get about 35 mp charge, insurance can be added at the back end of your car insurance for less than $50. This saves quite a bit on car maintenance and costs. The community has everything you need except big box stores which are close but not accessible by golf cart. I'm not familiar with other 55 plus communities in Arizona that allow golf carts.
This reminds me a lot of Catalina Island just off the coast of Long Beach. Since there is a small number of permanent residents, they use golf carts to get around since cars are so expensive to have shipped out to the island. It is also very very small. Some of those golf carts are totally custom built to look like monster trucks and hotrods. Really cool place to go visit if there is an opportunity that presents itself.
Most of small town America is golf cart friendly. In places without cart paths, you can just drive them on the street. Although these towns are generally small enough there are no traffic lights, during Florida-Georgia weekend, you can drive golf carts around Downtown Jacksonville with all the traffic lights and annoying one-way streets
If Americans were commissioned to make their own Venice
Just cut manhatten into squares, let some water in and you've got an american venice
...it'd be the Florida Keys.
Mohammed Ishaan K B -- Ever heard of the Florida Keys buddy?
@@bismuthcrystal9658 the florida keys are NOTHING like venice... venice is a city
@@ruwo7697 Ohhh. A land-locked one, where no one travels by boat everywhere? Where there are no boat taxis?
I also didn't know that the Florida Keys had no cities in them. Like Marathon. Which I thought existed, spanned multiple landmasses, and had artificial landmasses. But I guess I was wrong.
My bad. Clearly a land-based city with no coastal borders is much more similar to Venice than any number of cities in a region.
I had the pleasure of staying at Hilton Head Island for 4 different spring breaks, it’s very very similar to this city (although not as many golf carts) it was an amazing place to spend sometime, you could go everywhere in the island with those paths
I lived on an island in December 2018, until August 2020. It was inland and was like a peninsula, but it was technically an island. There were two bridges connecting, and the only reason you would go into the island would to be there for a specific reason. There was no pass through for traffic. It was called Daniel Island and was in Charleston SC. Anyway, people rode golf carts everywhere. It kind of looked like the city in this video, but it was much bigger. It had about 70,000 people living in it. Anyway, they rode golf carts on the rode, to school, and on all of the pathways too. I thought it was cool because the city in this video seems so similar to Daniel Island.
Tom Scott eating an egg McMuffin gives me life
looked like a cheeseburger
@@NSPlayer Defo an egg Mcmuffin - pause @ 3:07-3:08
There’s another town that uses Golf Carts in a very similar way! Bald Head Island off the coast of North Carolina has actually forbidden cars. It’s all golf carts. It’s much smaller though, and primarily a tourist town.
Isn't there a town in Florida that does this too? But I think that one is actually only for older people, like, kids can't live there or something
also one up here in Liberty Lake, Washington
There is one here in Florida, called The Villages. I’ve been there once, it was mostly retirees enjoying the rest of their life.
Nic Fishman isn’t Catilina island off the coast of CA like this
There are quite a few retirement cities throughout the country that have golf cart networks as older people like the slower speeds and cheaper prices of the golf carts.
As soon as I saw city of golf carts I knew this is about Peachtree City
I thought of Bald Head Island, NC. Except for emergency vehicles, everyone drives golf carts or rides bikes.
Tom Scott you missed the city of Avalon, on Catalina island, in California.
Tom distracted by ducks 🦆 as usually 😄
I bet this video just boosted the real estate in Georgia.
Nah bro, Atlanta is the Hollywood of the east coast now, real estate has been skyrocketing here for the last few years because brokers will buy out houses, and rent them to film crews for ludicrous amounts of money, that studios are willing to pay for to get their people out here.
But for normal people this means the price of an average house is skyrocketing in certain areas such as Peachtree, which is a major film town, not to mention it's distance to ATL considered.
Like I'm 30 minutes out from Atlanta without traffic and we're being hit hard.
@@CadillacDeVilledElegance Hence why everyone is moving to Charlotte. Real estate is super low, businesses are skyrocketing. It should overpass some major cities in the next 20 years.
PTC has always been affluent with high property values. It’s almost all doctors and Delta pilots and such. Any impact from anUA-cam video like this will be imperceptible.
shits already expensive here
Beware the California invasion. Those ethnocentrists will wreck any local culture you have and impose their Californian self-righteousness on the place. It happening to Portland, Organ. It happened to western Montana. It going on in Texas. Watch out!
So cool to see that the mayor knows everything about the history of the city
When I saw the thumbnail, I knew it had to be Peachtree City.
I love this idea. It must be good for stopping use of fuels and I love how free young people can be with their own golf carts. I’d love to see a Colin Furze cart zooming around
This was such a pleasant departure from the the normal topics of high science and industry and ancient history. Just a neat little city doing a neat little thing with a neat little mayor driving you around on a neat little cart
I still can't imagine, "Hi Mrs. Mayor, have you got a few hours to spare for a UA-cam video?"
THIS WAS A RELAXING INTERVIEW WITH THERE VOICES AND THE SOUND OF THE CART IS WAS LIKE ASMR THAT WAS GREAT!!!!
Not just Bikes got me to this video and its amazing.
More cities in the USA should do this but then for BIKES! :D
I'm fine with both, bikes or golf carts. Both are an improvement over cars-only. Give the people a choice!
@@bramvanduijn8086 And as this video demonstrates, you don't even need separate paths for them! ULTIMATE FREEDOM OF CHOICE!
The path is usable for bikes and golf carts. You got what you wanted. Why cant you just let people do what they want to do?
this is why the netherlands is a bicycle country; we have a parallel road network where cyclists can get anywhere safely without the risk of being run down by cars (except for intersections)
Also because bollards ;)
The united states 100+ times bigger than the Netherlands. Bikes can't take you across a whole county to go somewhere idiot
@@kiDkiDkiD12 Is this meant to be suggesting that golf carts can take you across the whole country
@@kiDkiDkiD12 Apples and oranges. Cycling is perfect for short commutes (say
@@TheeLinkeer A County not a Country
, learn the difference
"that's exactly what I would have done at age fifteen with my own golf cart, I would have removed the limiter on it"
"you can sup them up as much as you want"
(coughs in gadget geeks)
Colin Furzes Next video?
I live on the north side of Atlanta and have been to Peachtree City a handful of times and it is a MAJORLY rich area of Atlanta. That's a big part of why this works here. People have far more disposable income to invest in a custom golf cart just to troll around town.
I'd love a road network like that and see a lot of sense in it, considering the amount of duplication going on in even larger cities. You often have blocks of housing with schools and retail centers dotted about in repeating patterns, so it's not like many people would often wind up with a 20MPH limit being a major hurdle. I'd imagine extra-long cart rides would only happen to slightly more people than extra-long drives by car currently affect in many places, and unlike the latter, the former could be bridged by public parking lots at bus stops and the like.
The only proper bike trails in this city I'm in were just put in as a token gesture here and there, and the rest are confined to parks. You just can't get around via cycle here unless you live in work in very specific places, unless you're willing to commit to sharing often shoulderless roads with normal traffic. Considering normal biking speed for many is 10-20MPH, and most roads here have speed limits of 40-60MPH and not so much as a shoulder or sidewalk (city ordinances ban biking on sidewalks, but people often ignore that for safety's sake when available, and no one enforces it), it's just asking to get run over once the sun goes down. Basically, I'm radiating enough jealousy to power a small town right now.
Thank you for showing this stuff off. It might not be super high tech, but it let's one know there are interesting little ideas out there.
While impractical in most places, this seems like an excellent option for certain areas. Takes cars off the road, gives a safer place for cyclists, safer option for younger driver and all around just seems like fun.
Not to mention they're electric instead of gas powered!
You mean - make them even lazier, not learn how to drive at all, incredible dangerous as they offer no safety what so ever..................................
@@Kevdama1
... They very likely could be gas powered.
@@Kevdama1
Section 78 - 94, Allowed "things" on paths
(4)
Registered electric-powered golf carts or motorized carts;
(5)
Registered gasoline-powered golf carts or motorized carts;
So it seems that both electric and gas carts can be on the paths. A shame that diesel carts can't be on the paths. Some of those only turn on when the pedal is pushed and immediately shuts off when let off.
@@ABaumstumpf They can go like 20 miles per hour, and they don't have to worry about snow like up north.
Peachtree City lay on a railway corridor that would link directly with the Atlanta airport and then with the Atlanta city center. If only Atlanta had a commuter rail network...
I recently moved to the city of Viera in the state of Florida, where we purchased a house & all you see is people driving their golf carts everywhere, crossing intersections, at the supermarket, even at the mall, It's awesome!!! Can't wait to have mine.😁
I have to say what a cool Mayor.
what a neat little town, reminds me of seeing a show on Spruce Creek Airpark in Florida where basically everyone has a small airplane that they use to get around and they park it in their driveway.
itaybron now THAT is a place I'd love to see Tom visit
@@squidsbizarreadventure You and me both.
There's also the Jumbolair Estate in Florida, which is where John Travolta lives. I used to fly in every weekend for bunch at the estate while doing flight training in Sanford, which as a pilot, you were welcome to do (just keep it quiet from school executives), and you'd see John and Kelly there sometimes. Easiest way to know if they were in back then, was seeing the Qantas 707 parked out front (prior to John donating it to a museum in Australia).
Each house has both a regular garage for cars, and a hangar for aircraft.
There's also a much smaller estate in Naperville, Illinois called Aero Estates. My family lived in the adjacent neighborhood for a few years.
I can’t imagine the noise of 600 golf carts back up buzzers going off at the same time when school gets out
My grandparents live there, great place. The paths really go everywhere and they aren’t just running along the roads.
Same thing with every transportation network: there's a critical mass needed to get the massive buy-in to be properly supported. Same for light rail, bus rapid transit and other modes. It just so happens that roads are beyond that critical mass (probably to a detrimental degree) that we rely on automobiles so much.
Very detrimental degree.
There's also a golf-cart-heavy retirement community in Florida called The Villages where basically everyone drives golf carts on the roads and multi-modal paths. Some of the "Yesteryear" golf carts cost upwards of $50,000. It's mindblowing.
Several small (and not so small) towns throughout fly-over country here in America, have passed laws and ordinance's allowing golf-carts onto public roads and sidewalks. A great number of them have built or expanded bike paths to accommodate the use of golf-carts. Naturally, you'll find more examples where the winters aren't as harsh.
I live 30 minutes from this place and I’ve been there a lot. Never thought that golf carts all over the place was this weird to people. Cool to see that people find this that interesting
A genuinely great idea for reducing carbon footprint. The mayor seemed like a wonderful person too!!
@The Four Horsemen Yea but these are effectively a car in terms of amount of passengers as well as luggage space but much less harmful to the enviroment. That is my point.
@The Four Horsemen Not if you need to commute with passengers and/or luggage though.
Almost as good as that innovative new thing (which I believe has yet to really take off in America) of putting one foot in front of another. "Walking", I think it's called.
I feel like bikes would be a better option...
Less carbon? maybe. I'd imagine the users own a golf cart, and a car for longer journeys. Then the cart runs on electricity so is zero emission? In the USA that electricity is probably made by burning coal, so not really, it's just moving the pollution elsewhere. Possibly still a net win as it's driving change, and cleaner energy may come later. Now if there were nuclear carts then that would be low carbon...
only in America they would build perfectly good cycle paths and use golf carts instead.
Plus the McDonald's makes this so much more American.
Hey I'll take it - usually in America they don't build cycle paths at all, ever.
Are they good cycleways though? Them mentioning cars getting in (probably because a lack of bollards) is not a good sign. Do they lead to meaningful destinations? Are they too windy? Did they choose the worst hilly areas to place them? I also want to see more data comparing cycling numbers, vs gold-cart numbers. If the former is low, is it really because of the quality, or is it because things are too far from each other?
Its actually a trend started by the elderly....
Found the Dutchman
I noticed when they were driving through the high school that most of the carts were 'LSV', meaning Low Speed Vehicles', meaning they are allowed on public streets. But some were not. Look for headlights!
Most newer carts can be converted to be street legal. The cost of parts typically runs around $200. Or you can buy an already street legal cart.
I wonder if they could just put a slow moving vehicle triangle on the back like what goes on tractors and be covered. I still wouldn't want to drive a slow and fragile vehicle on a road with cars and trucks that are expecting to go faster than my top speed.
@@jasonreed7522 Apparently not, otherwise people would spend $25 for a sign, as opposed to a couple of hundreds for lights, etc.
I am from North Texas and I have visited Peachtree City, GA in 2018. I was very curious of why there’s golf carts everywhere. Thanks Tom!!!