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A Florida community has a novel strategy to reduce how much its residents drive: buying them a golf cart instead.

The planned community of Babcock Ranch recently reported its best sales month ever after it offered a free golf cart with the purchase of any new home, besting its previous one-month record by nearly 25 percent.

And many of these caddy wagons aren’t zipping around the links — they’re replacing car trips. Long before the golf cart promotion, Babock Ranch set out to create a haven for the “joy of golf cart living,” using Vision Zero tools like low speed limits, dedicated non-automotive paths and dense land use that places everything residents need within the seven-mile radius of the community.

Read more from Kea Wilson — and check out the other news from around the country — at the links below!

  • Friday Video: Inside the Global Far-Right Push To Rip Out Bike Lanes
    by Kea Wilson
    October 23, 2026
    Toronto might be in the center of the fight to resist bike lane teardown today. But if some far-right politicians have their way, this fight won’t be the last.
  • Friday’s Headlines Shoot Themselves in the Foot
    by Blake Aued
    October 23, 2026
    Gas taxes pay for transit, too, so what happens when politicians pander to voters, and the highway trust fund runs dry?
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