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Old 09-18-2025, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Maker View Post
Hope removal of most, if not all, gates is on the agenda.
With all the new construction in the south, there are no gate arms. Have not heard one instance of any of the doom/gloom type predictions happen. Real life experiment that shows gates are not necessary. Possibly at a small number of locations, but certainly most could go away.
Big opportunity to save a huge amount of OUR money.
Were you not around to read of the safety issue with the Meggison Rd gate near Sawgrass? The numerous close calls while that gate was missing or in "contractor mode" showed the value and the need for gates at golf cart crossings. Personal experience, both mine and others on these boards, confirms this need.

More to the point, if you read this proposal, which is available on the agenda for this meeting, you will see that the foundation of the work was to add long-range reader capability to the gates. Removing the gates was not, and is not, a consideration.
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