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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Gates in the Villages are on public roads. The District and the lawyers have claimed that due to this, the gates must follow the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. You want a more visible gate? Find a way to do that while staying in compliance with that manual then bring the suggestion to a PWAC meeting.
The gates are designed to break off at the bolts when they are impacted with enough force. This reduces damage to the vehicle impacting it and reduces damage to the gate and the mechanism that lifts it. When you find an approach to increasing the visibility of the gate, make sure it does not add weight. If weight is added to the gates then the whole system would need to be strengthened which could be costly to install, more costly to repair, and more damaging to vehicles.
OR, drivers could slow down and pay more attention at areas where they already know gates exist.
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Bill,
If you continue to use common sense, logic, and facts, you may get banned from this thread...
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