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Originally Posted by Maker
When gate arms are broken off, or removed for maintenance, or removed for bad weather... the above theory fails. Daily crashes do not happen. Traffic manages to flow just fine, and actually flows faster.
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When they are first removed, traffic flows fine.
After a day or so, traffic flows faster as drivers ignore the stop signs.
The risk to golf carts increases. I have no study for this, just my personal experience. When the gates are down for any extended period of time the feeling of playing "frogger" increases. Gaps in traffic decrease as drivers fail to stop and near misses increase as the actions of individual drivers become less predictable.
I would be the first to argue that the absence of crashes is evidence of a tractable problem. However, through experience I recognize that as both the duration of the absence of gates and the expectation of the absence of gates grow, the problem steadily becomes worse.
Taking the gates down for repair or bad weather reveals issues that could lead to serious problems if they remain down.