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Originally Posted by Barefoot
The main gate on Belvedere at 466 has an arm that is short. Cars must stop, but the arm permits golf carts to easily pass beside the arm without merging with traffic and using a card. In six years, I've never once seen a golf cart use a card.
Tzangrilli, are you positive that golf carts should always leave the golf cart path and merge with traffic, so they can use their card to open the gate?  Since it is a "pretend security gate", why would they need to do this? |
There is no merge at that point, the cart "lane" (paths are multi modal trails) continues on the right from before the gate to after.
To help with your confusion, the first reason for the "pretend security gate", is not for security but for traffic control. No different than a stop sign or traffic light to let cross traffic proceed safely. Since there is no cross traffic at that gate there must have been an exception made to keep traffic moving.