A Surprising Look Into the Future of Transportation

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Growing Bolder is often about finding ways to do more with less. While we’re all milking every mile from our gas tanks, there is one community in America that seems unconcerned about the price of gas. Truth is, many who live there don’t even know the price of gas.

It’s not that they don’t care. One resident told me, “I worry for other people. I worry for young families with children. I think it’s terrible that they have to choose between milk or gas.” And it’s not that they’re wealthy. These are retirees on fixed incomes. The reason they have a cavalier attitude toward gas prices  is that their preferred mode of transportation is the golf cart.

The Villages, Florida is a golf cart community with over 75,000 residents. Villagers not only drive their carts on special transportation trails, they drive them on city streets. And they don’t just drive them to the golf course. They drive them to the grocery store, to church, to the doctor, to meetings, and to the gym. They drive them everywhere.

Many residents have two carts --  a his and a hers. Their gas-guzzling car never comes out of the garage except for long trips out of town.

Villagers are fortunate in that they live in Florida. A standard golf cart is a fair-weather machine and wouldn’t work nearly as well in Milwaukee or South Bend. But don’t kill the messenger. It’s not about the golf cart. It’s about the small electric powered vehicle.

In a strange way, The Villages, Florida is one of the most progressive, and least gas-reliant communities in the world. It’s a peek into a cleaner,  more energy independent future.

If you would like to see a for yourself, check out this Growing Bolder video on the world’s #1 city in electric transportation.