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Old 11-25-2021, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Mortal1 View Post
You could add an arm that was fully lighted and flashing and they would still be knocked down. For some reason some folks seem to disregard the fact that as a continually aging community there will always be folks who forget the gate arms are there, are distracted or to blind to notice.

A gate arm that had a pressure hinge and when hit released the gate arm to fold back would solve many issues, but the cost would be high and I've a feeling that the cost of the cheap aluminum ones prevents any real change.
Exactly. All the extra bells and whistles won't prevent the clueless from wrecking them. We are very fortunate it's mainly gate arms being broken and not people.