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I've talked to the folks who work on the Mallory gates a few time over the last couple of years since we walk by them every morning and they claim that MANY (not all) of the non-working gates in TV are MECHANICAL issues not due to crashes but due to AGE. Lot's of the gate equipment is well over 15 years old. The crashed gates are obvious, but the last few at Mallory have been mechanical and they are often waiting for parts. Often (at Mallory can't speak for them all) gates are down on both sides and both directions at the same time so obviously that isn't a "crashing" problem.