Golf Carts

[Astucia]

What are the "rules" regarding golf carts or similar vehicles - licensing / highway usage / anything else one needs to know ?

 

[Father Guido]

What are the "rules" regarding golf carts or similar vehicles - licensing / highway usage / anything else one needs to know ?

what does it matter?, do you think locals will follow any "rules"

 

[monfongo]

It's not the locals it' the Canadian snow birds.

 

[Astucia]

What are the "rules" regarding golf carts or similar vehicles - licensing / highway usage / anything else one needs to know ?

Thanks guys - you're both SO helpful

 

[SKY]

You can drive them in gated residences, but not on public streets................

 

[windeguy]

You can drive them in gated residences, but not on public streets................

In Sosua, last I heard, you can drive them on the back streets, which are indeed public, but not on Route 5.
They were banned on all streets for a while, but that policy was relaxed.

 

[JD Jones]

Get yourself an electric car the same size as a golf cart

Or, You can buy a Baja Qute for about half the price of the electric car:

Lots of these used as taxis here in SC.

 

[Astucia]

In Sosua, last I heard, you can drive them on the back streets, which are indeed public, but not on Route 5.
They were banned on all streets for a while, but that policy was relaxed.

Do you know if they are required to be plated? I heard years ago talk of this.

Lights and anything else required ?

 

[El Hijo de Manolo]

Get yourself an electric car the same size as a golf cart

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Or, You can buy a Baja Qute for about half the price of the electric car:

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Lots of these used as taxis here in SC.

Looks like a rollover nightmare. I’d rather ride a tricycle down 6 de Noviembre

 

[JD Jones]

Looks like a rollover nightmare. I’d rather ride a tricycle down 6 de Noviembre

No more than a golf cart.
I've seen YT videos of guys buying "The smallest mini car" on Alibaba and trying to do just that. The electric ones are too heavy because of the batteries, And the Bajaj doesn't go that fast.
For putzing around Sosua they'd be fine.

 

[windeguy]

Do you know if they are required to be plated? I heard years ago talk of this.

Lights and anything else required ?

That I don't know.

 

[windeguy]

https://supercarros1.com/carros-200-400-mil-pesos/bajaj-qute-puerto-rico/

 

[JD Jones]

https://supercarros1.com/carros-200-400-mil-pesos/bajaj-qute-puerto-rico/[/URL

I wonder why supercarros.com doesn't have the Bajaj brand but supercarros1.com does? At least the vehicles in the DR are identified as such.
I'd buy the electric before the Bajaj.

 

[monfongo]

The same rules apply to golf carts as automobiles outside of gated communities.

 

[windeguy]

I wonder why supercarros.com doesn't have the Bajaj brand but supercarros1.com does? At least the vehicles in the DR are identified as such.

1 upsmanship?

 

[Seamonkey]

Do you know if they are required to be plated? I heard years ago talk of this.

Lights and anything else required ?

You need to bring your golf cart to the Digesett office in Sosua. They will give you a three-digit number to put on the back of your cart. All traffic rules apply. You can't drive it on the highways. You need "ley" insurance.