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“And the price quoted to get license and tags, at $6,000, for Mexico state... wow. Fuggeddaboudit.” It was only a matter of time. On local expat Facebook page a proud golf cart owner proclaimed that all cart owners here can pay a facilitator 6000 pesos and get Mexico plates for their golf carts. She did it. Asked if they were legal for Jalisco residents and would they be recognized by local police she said they had an agreement with the police commander. Here we go again!

Thank goodness the driver was in a light weight golfcart and not an automoble as she could have been.

Thanks for all the feedback everyone - I'm starting to actually feel like I'm trolling people here now so I started a new Topic for those that are interested in golf carts and are considering using them here at Lakeside. http://www.chapala.com/webboard/index.php?/topic/74089-golf-carting-in-ajijicsan-antonio/#comment-554734 I'd love to address all the negative comments here, but would rather focus on the positive - I understand your position and many have made valid negative points against carts, but I maintain that, in the balance they are safe, economical, fun and a good choice for a certain segment here at Lake Side. I understand most people feel the need to have a car, but I'm not one of them. As for those questioning my reasons for living in Mexico: In Mexico you get to do what you want for the most part without a million rules and regulations.This has its good and bad sides and I've been affected by both. But I've lived here on and off for more than 20 years, with the good and the bad and I still love it - Mexico need not change for me. I speak fluent Spanish, help everyone I can, provide good jobs to locals and generally try to be a good citizen of Mexico - which is now what I am. Mexico is not perfect nor does it try to be - Mexico is Mexico and I love it the way it is - warts and all. I think most of you posting feel and act the the same way at some level or wouldn't even be here. Thanks again for all your comments!

Blame the victim....sheesh! I witnessed this: an elderly couple had double-parked their golf cart behind a car parked legally in front of El Torito (both nose in). I saw them get into their cart with their shopping bags, and put the car into drive and damage the car parked legally in front of them. I watched as they finally found reverse, and sped away. Neither got out to see if there was damage (it shook the car pretty badly). What I took away from this incident was that had someone been WALKING in front of this cart, they would have gotten nailed. I'm in good shape, walk 2+ miles a day, but at my age I now longer bounce off of pavement. If a golf cart were to knock me or my loved one down and that person was uninsured, as much as I detest law suits I would sue the @@@ off that person. Falls for anyone after age 55 can be traumatic; bones don't heal like they did when we were younger. Anyone driving a golf cart around here better understand the consequences if they are not insured.

I, for one, don't have any resentment of golf carts per se, so long as they follow the rules of the road and the regulations that car owners are obliged to follow already. As a car owner, I have to pay a number of fees to stay legal, but that's just the way it is. I did move here on purpose and haven't done a thing to encourage my host country to change in order to suit my idea of the way things "should" be, and frankly, I don't understand the folks who spend time and energy on those wishes. The obvious question in this case is "why not move to one of those communities in the U.S. described by another poster where golf carts are the normal transportation and a sample of such a community is shown in an previous post"? It's a hackneyed thing to say since it's been said on many topics, but honestly........why did SYSY move to Mexico?

I find several of your comments condecending towards Mexicans and their country. IMO

That will certainly be difficult for some elderly people here where it is their only mode of transportation. On the other hand, friends and I at a patio bar at the Plaza watched a lady trying to park and hit both the car in front and then back into the car behind. The space had to be 25 feet long and then she gave up and drove on looking for a bigger spot. Hence, maybe the need for the crackdown.

If I have wanted to be a stupid looking senior citizen and drive a golf cart I would have moved to Sun City. Is SYSY really Laura?

Those carts do have a problem... or two.