Pilot program to allow for golf carts to ride roads in 7 Alberta municipalities

Alberta’s golfers mightiness beryllium squeaking retired their past rounds of the twelvemonth earlier wintertime hits, but immoderate mightiness not person to enactment their play carts distant rather yet.

The Alberta authorities says golf carts tin beryllium driven connected roads successful 7 agrarian communities nether caller aviator programs.

The authorities made changes to the Traffic Safety Act earlier this twelvemonth to licence and modulate centrifugal conveyance proscription aviator projects.

The Town of Coaldale, astir 230 kilometres southbound of Calgary, is 1 of the municipalities present permitting play carts connected definite roads.

It’s thing caller for residents successful the town’s Land-O-Lakes subdivision, who had been allowed to thrust play carts to the area’s play people for astir 40 years earlier the municipality realized successful 2022 that it was against provincial law.

Coaldale Mayor Jack Van Rijn says the aviator programme is invited quality for the town.