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Originally Posted by Bonanza
You ARE second-guessing me! I did own a golf cart for quite a while and subsequently, chose to sell it. I have never seen the benefit of the gates and I truly believe those who think they are terrific are a product of Morse's brainwashing and giving residents a false sense of security as to their benefit.
Yes, the gates do stop traffic momentarily but when there is another car directly behind that one, there is still not enough time for a golf cart to safely cross the entrance to a village. They still have to wait!
Your breaking the cost down to $23.00 per year, per person is laughingly ridiculous and probably not very accurate, but what difference does it make??? 
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Nope. No false sense of security for me. I well understand that anyone can pass through the gate.
Wrong again. Knowing the arm is coming down in between cars allows a waiting cart to get at least half-way across. That's all the cart needs, is half-way once, half-way twice, and it's through the intersection. It works, over and over again. If you can't see that it's because you don't drive a cart every day.
As far as breaking down the cost to $23 per year per person being "laughingly ridiculous", I used twoplanekid's numbers from the District website, using his higher estimate of $3Million per year and divided it by the population of TV which I understand to be in excess of 130,000.
When I divide 3Million by 130,000 I get 23. Do you have different numbers you can support, or does your calculator come up with a different number?