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Old 07-29-2014, 08:10 PM
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Pretty new to TV. Could someone provide the URL where you sign up for the e-mail community notifications? Thanks.
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Old 07-29-2014, 08:16 PM
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Where do you go to sign up for District email notices? Thanks
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Old 07-29-2014, 08:47 PM
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You can go to Village Community Development Districts for a lot of info. Then click on the link in the left column (scroll down) "Sign up for e-notifications" . The link is VCDD e-Notifications Sign Up the complete the request. Works well.
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It is now Wednesday morning....does anyone know if the tunnel under 466 has been reopened? I don't see an update on the CDD website.
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It was open last night.
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Old 07-30-2014, 06:56 AM
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Thanks, RP!!!



Mr 07 can take his cart to his appointment today. Always good to hear first hand experience.
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Old 07-30-2014, 07:49 AM
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I agree with Warren. When the street/tunnel/path is closed, they should trace back to the nearest place people could turn off, in all directions, and put up a sign. This non-friendly habit used to happen all the time in Michigan, leaving a line of cars backed up and trying to turn around.

It's only common sense. Plus they would post a list of closings once a month in the paper, and due to weather and other interventions, it was never accurate. Having just a sign at the entrance... Duh. By that time it's too late.
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Here's a thought for the stone throwers: not everyone reads the Sun, visits TOTV or drives that route on a regular basis. I know some of you may be shocked but there are other things out there in the big world. Some people buy other newspapers, leave the bubble and don't participate on chat boards.....
This was an important part of my complaint. One thing we can count on for sure is that authors of nearly every post will come under attack. It seems that most attackers of my posting believe every Villager reads the Daily Sun, watches the Villages TV station and Listens to the villages radio station. We don't have comcast, therefore no Villages TV, We never have a radio playing, too busy to sit and listen to a radio and while we do subscribe to the Daily Sun, we usually only do a quick scan and sometimes not even that. The gist of my posting was; if you have any kind of closure, place signs well in advance. Why let people drive two miles only to find a closure and have to backtrack that same two miles. Not very smart in my opinion.
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Old 07-30-2014, 08:11 AM
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I drive through that tunnel twice a day, nearly everyday. Obviously, I knew what was going on with the closure, but the first thing I thought is how inconvenient it was going to be for people who didn't see the two electronic signs announcing the closure. I thought that having only the two signs at the two entrances to the tunnel weren't really adequate notice either, Warren.
Thanks for the support. Let me offer this for thought. You are drivingdown a rural highway. The last cross road was 10 miles back when you suddenly come upon a bridge out 500 feet ahead. Wouldn't it really tick you off that those in charge did not place a huge warning at that last cross road telling you bridge out 10 miles ahead ---- road closed. Anyway, thanks for agreeing with me. Most of the time I have to duck the stones and arrows.
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I'm not shooting the OP. We've been gone for several weeks, but in visiting e-mails (we get that "other" newspaper that comes online) and that along with TOTV, the radio station who strongly advertised the closing we were alerted. I can see how someone "might" miss this as it happens. We were affected by the closing as we only have one golf-cart and our SUV. One of us had to go the long way over to SS...which wasn't too bad after it was said and done...took only 1/2 hr. from Amelia to get there (by the hospital) and we don't have a souped up golf cart neither.
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Thanks for the support. Let me offer this for thought. You are drivingdown a rural highway. The last cross road was 10 miles back when you suddenly come upon a bridge out 500 feet ahead. Wouldn't it really tick you off that those in charge did not place a huge warning at that last cross road telling you bridge out 10 miles ahead ---- road closed. Anyway, thanks for agreeing with me. Most of the time I have to duck the stones and arrows.
Plenty of postings online, newspaper, and radio that told of the ONE day closing of that tunnel. This was not a rural highway but in The Villages. Anyone can play the "What If" game and make it sound reasonable.

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Old 07-30-2014, 11:36 AM
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Warren, I thought a while ago you said you weren't going to post like this anymore? Are you back?
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i travel that tunnel every morning and late afternoon. there were lots of signs, telling of the closure from 6 to 10. i thought they meant 6 pm to 10 pm. what they meant was 6 pm to 10 am the next morning. could they not just have stationed community watch to escort cart drivers across 466; there were community watch people there for the entire time that the tunnel was closed. there have been community watch people staioned on colony blvd for the past 4 months, and usually 3 or 4 of them.
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