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Old 07-16-2013, 11:09 AM
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Are there cameras at that gate? Just to clarify, if you were going south on Canal the gates are after the signal at Bonita. There is no golf cart lane for about 800 feet prior to the gates as you have to merge into traffic before the center island then go through the intersection then remain in a traffic lane approaching the southbound gates. Looking at googlemaps it seems the resident lane is the right lane gate and the visitor lane in the center lane gate. Thus if you went through the resident gate you stayed near the outside curb. How did someone manage to pass you on the right? No matter his behavior was completely unacceptable, and perhaps borders on illegal (? menacing, driving while intoxicated?, failure to yield, and perhaps more possibilities.) I almost always use the right side, residents' gate, at that location as I don't want to swing left, crossing a lane of car traffic, then after getting through the gate have to swing right again crossing traffic to get into the reappearing golf cart lane. And I do that whether or not I have my card or have to push the button for entry.
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