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Originally Posted by coffeebean
I have seen what happens when the gates are gone. It works just fine for me for the gates I routinely go through. No problems that I can see when the gates are removed for storm preparation. The two gates I use all the time are the Mallory gate and the Odel Circle gate. They may not be very busy, however, compared to other gates though.
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St Charles gates are still down. Thursday as we were 5th in line, we all watched in horror as a cart crossed exiting car lane, and stopped in middle to watch the two entrance lanes.
At the same time 2 cars came off roundabout, both accelerating through entrance gate to try to beat the other. The cart stopped was barely missed getting hit sitting to cross. When they finally crossed both residents were clearly shaken about the incident.
I am glad in your world you have no worries crossing during storm prep. But durning that storm prep, Traffic is at its lowest, due to many choose to stay at home as they should. If your gates were down for weeks in normal everyday traffic, like St Charles, your gate crossing thoughts might change.
It seems as each day passes with down gates at ST Charles the cars are becoming more out of control, knowing that they only need to slow down or stop if they feel like it.