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 live in peachtree city and there is no secret racing gangs on golf carts, however I will be fulfilling this goal and starting one

Prohibited in Peachtree City: • littering of banana peels • throwing objects at other cart drivers • drifting • blue shells

I was in school when they were filming this and i remember our whole class staring out the window

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."

I went to highschool there. 80% of injuries among boys aged 15-17 were flipped-golfcart related

Oh I bet there’s some crazy cart races after school

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.

This place looks amazing if you're into electric skateboards.

Goes to America, gets McDonalds in a golf cart

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 ;)

"The City of Golf Carts" was almost subtitled "Tom Scott Eats a Cheeseburger"

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

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

Ducks really are Tom’s weakness, aren’t they?

"Sorry, I got distracted by ducks." He's becoming James Veitch!

"Hey, great bycicle infrastructure you built there!" Americans: Nope, we just use smaller cars

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.

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.

"The breaks are very good" *"It's better than the alternative"* Britishness level: Queen at teatime with a crumpet

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!

If Americans were commissioned to make their own Venice

"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.

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).

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!

Wish you would have interviewed the high school kids.

"sorry I got distracted by ducks" Tom Scott is my spirit animal

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.

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 lived here for over 26 years. A most unusual city. I loved having a golf cart.

The villages in Florida are basically all about the golf carts too.

I live in the next city over and we always joke that they give you a golf cart when you move in.

Am I the only one thinking Leslie Knope would be friends with this mayor if given the opportunity?

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.

Seeing Tom bob around the woods eating takeaway is just one of the most wholesome memes

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. :-)

Wow new Mario Kart looks cool!

Lmao even the mayor did a rolling stop at the end

Imagine your date picking you up in a golf cart😂😂

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

4:12 -"Sorry, I got distracted by ducks." Seems so be a recurring theme :p just watched the golden ducks story again yesterday :p

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.

As soon as I saw city of golf carts I knew this is about Peachtree City

When you get down to it, a golf cart is just a low-speed electric vehicle optimized for local use. Makes sense to me.

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.

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.

You need to see "The Villages" in Florida. Golf Courses galore and carts everywhere

So sad we couldn't see the high school traffic jam!

I was born and raised in Peachtree City, GA! I had the best childhood ever...

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.)

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

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

only in America they would build perfectly good cycle paths and use golf carts instead.

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

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.

Meanwhile, Atlanta's roads consists of 10% asphalt and 90% metal plate.

Those paths look so good for bicycles too!

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 KZfaq video! Most residents of Atlanta don't even know about it.

Tom Scott you missed the city of Avalon, on Catalina island, in California.

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.

Tom Scott eating an egg McMuffin gives me life

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...

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.

Tom eats a McDonald's burger for 2 minutes on a golf cart for 40k views

Is there a more perfect way to describe Tom Scott than "Sorry, I was distracted by ducks"

The city of Avalon on Catalina Island in California does something similar. Most residents drive golf carts or similarly-sized vehicles.

When I saw the thumbnail, I knew it had to be Peachtree City.

Ok now i know i'm getting old because that looked like a lot of fun

Tom distracted by ducks 🦆 as usually 😄

So cool to see that the mayor knows everything about the history of the city

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

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)

I have to say what a cool Mayor.

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 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.

I bet this video just boosted the real estate in Georgia.

A duck cast distraction on Tom Scott and it was super effective!

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.

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.

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.

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

one of my favorite movies, greener grass, was shot here!

THIS WAS A RELAXING INTERVIEW WITH THERE VOICES AND THE SOUND OF THE CART IS WAS LIKE ASMR THAT WAS GREAT!!!!

Country Roads take me home with my golf cart

When turn 16 and you finally can get your golf cart.

2:13 a Ford Mustang Police Car, you don't see many of those

I can’t imagine the noise of 600 golf carts back up buzzers going off at the same time when school gets out

This is brilliant! Less people on the actual road , less pollution, and more paths to take with your bike , jog or just walk.

A genuinely great idea for reducing carbon footprint. The mayor seemed like a wonderful person too!!

My home town! Love it here

Absolutely amazing well done mayor keep building more paths wish my city was like yours😍

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.

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.

My grandparents live there, great place. The paths really go everywhere and they aren’t just running along the roads.

"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)

I would suspect that many northern cities, all other aspects being equal, would be a poor fit for golf cart paths due to freezing weather or snowy conditions requiring plowing of and or salt application to the paths.

Tom, this is one of my personal favorites. Love it.

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.😁