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Old 07-18-2023, 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by spinner1001 View Post
The gated areas with an attendant assisting visitors that I recall treat the activity as merging two lanes into one. The attached photo shows the gates and guard house. The _resident_ lane is merging into the visitor lane. It does not show the visitor lane merging into the resident lane. Is your area reversed?

Merging two lanes into one occurs in many places without gate attendants both inside and outside TV. Who is responsible in the cases without an attendant? Methinks the obligation is with the driver in the lane merging in — the resident lane in this case — and not anyone else. The introduction of a guard house does not shift the responsibility for merging from the resident lane driver to the attendant assisting visitors. It just doesn’t.

Florida Statutes put the responsibility on the driver who is attempting to merge into the destination lane (the visitor lane in this photo).

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