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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
I must commend Steve9930 for remarkable restraint. I suspect that if I had made his post then my reply to the post of leftyf would have been "I told you so."
I agree with Steve9930 that it was a great mistake to continue to bring this issue up, and particularly to continue to bring it up to Duke Energy. The rational thing would have been for those who use the path to continue to use it until Duke took some affirmative action to close the path.
This is simple. If Duke Energy wanted to close the path, it could be accomplished in a couple of hours by bringing some earth moving equipment and plowing great trenches across the property.
The rational thing to do would have been to not poke the sleeping giant. This is a case where it was easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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Carl, I'm afraid its too late. When I heard about the improvements to the path my first reaction was "Oh Boy".
I believe that before the path was improved Duke was under the impression the traffic was minimal. However after learning about the improvements, I can hear the comment now", "We have a problem. With the increased traffic there is going to be an incident and we will be libel". That's all it takes to wake up the legal staff. Everyone will just have to sit back and see what happens now. I believe that Duke also sees this as a PR Nightmare. You get these when you ignore the obvious. Duke should have closed the path years ago to avoid what they have now.. We will just have to wait and see. Sometimes if you just sit back and be quiet the legal staff goes back to sleep. For me I see some white light in this. I was looking at the Elio. If the path closes I'll have and argument with the CEO of the family to buy one when they become available.