WARNING to anybody driving to WDW!!!

[seashoreCM]

The significance of a road's being private is that its owner has the right to restrict travel without notifying the general public in advance.

Except that the owner may lose that right if it does not exercise that right every once in awhile such as by actually closing down the road for one day every two years.

 

[skier_pete]

We typically rent a car even when staying on property. The reason is that we do not feel comfortable on the buses with our kids. They fly everywhere from our experience. When I drive, I know that my DD3 is in her seat safe and sound. I also know that I am in control of how I drive. As I've stated, I'll go 8-10.

OT, but:

Statistically, you and your kids are MUCH, MUCH safer on a bus than in your car...even with you driving it. See, the problem is you don't have 100% control over getting in an accident, some of that is ceded to other drivers on the road. Since the majority of accidents occur between two vehicles on the road...if you get in an accident, you are about 25 Times more likely to be seriously injured in a car addient than in a bus accident. Its all about mass and momentum. A car gets hit by another car...the damage is going to be spread equally between the two vehicles, because they are roughly the same mass. If you are on a bus...and you hit OR get hit by a car...a bus has roughly 10 times the mass as the car.Therefore, the bus takes 10 % of the damage, while the car takes 90 %. Plus, the damage tends to be more localized on a bus. This is why they don't require seat belts on most school buses. (Now, hitting immovable objects are a different story - if you were to run into a building or a bridge abutment, the damage would be pretty devastating either way.)

I also tell people that are nervous about flying to WDW or riding rides..."Statistically - the most dangerous part of your entire vacation is the drive from your house to the airport. If you survive that...you good to go."

SkierPete

 

[DarthKTrava]

Not very logical way of thinking if you ask me (speaking on them not you). I for one know most states that have heavy tourism, at least the ones I have lived in, or not to big in ticketing people on vacation. They hardly hand out out of town people unless they are really breaking the speed limit. So your tourism is slow and you solve this by handed out speeding tickets in this economy. WOW I can see lines of families just looking forward to coming all the way back down the Florida to get a ticket. Statistically is has been shown that if you start handing out a lot of tickets it turns tourists off. How this changes during a recession I don't know but I still don't think it can help any. The point is your trying to pick up tourists not turn them away. Seriously on the interstate and most highways pulling someone for anything less than 10mph is a joke...people that go 85 and 90 in a 65 deserve the ticket not the people going 75....

I dunno.... try taking the route from central NC down to Myrtle Beach.... it's heavily laden with cops in small towns where the speed limit drops for a few miles then goes back up again. They LOVE to ticket tourists. Guess that paid for the road widening and the signs they have up WARNING of the drop in speed limit......