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REDCART
02-18-2015, 12:25 PM
Just curious, does anyone know whether the Sheriff's Deputies, Fire Dept, and EMS have to stop, and wait for the gates to go up, or do they have remotes to raise the gates as they approach? If they have to stop and wait that could delay an emergency response.
Villager Joyce
02-18-2015, 12:28 PM
Good Question. Same question about fire and emergency vehicles.
57ChevyFI
02-18-2015, 12:32 PM
They do not have gate cards, the gate attendants open the gates for them during emergency response
Bonanza
02-18-2015, 12:48 PM
They do not have gate cards, the gate attendants open the gates for them during emergency response

Well, there 'ya go. It's just been proven that no one needs a gate card!

Did you lose yours? Well, it's only $15 to get a new one.
What a joke!
villager
02-18-2015, 01:15 PM
What about the many places where there is no gate attendant?
karostay
02-18-2015, 03:28 PM
Has anyone ever not gotten through a gate card or no card ?
dbussone
02-18-2015, 05:40 PM
In most, if not all, communities with gates, police and fire responders have gate remotes that open the gates from a distance. Come on folks do you think a police officer at an unmanned gate is just going to sit there waiting for a gate to open after pushing a button.
TheVillageChicken
02-18-2015, 05:57 PM
Everyone with a finger tip has a gate card. I have only seen one gate in the Villages that doesn't have a button.
memason
02-18-2015, 06:01 PM
At least, the sheriff deputies have a gate cards. I just saw one using a card a couple days ago at the St. Charles gate (by Sand Hill GF)
philnpat
02-18-2015, 06:25 PM
Well, there 'ya go. It's just been proven that no one needs a gate card!

Did you lose yours? Well, it's only $15 to get a new one.
What a joke!

Maybe it's time to move to a truly gated community if it's really that bad.
Matzy
02-18-2015, 06:27 PM
As I heard after asking for that issue: For emergency: All Fire-and EMS stations always located close to a gate which has attendance, they open immediately. Police and EMS-/Fire does have gate cards.
dbussone
02-18-2015, 06:36 PM
Maybe it's time to move to a truly gated community if it's really that bad.


Really???
Shimpy
02-18-2015, 06:41 PM
Maybe it's time to move to a truly gated community if it's really that bad.

I lived in a couple of them in Boca Raton and Boynton Bch. Florida and believe me if someone wanted to get in, which happened several times, then they will.
Bonanza
02-19-2015, 04:25 AM
Maybe it's time to move to a truly gated community if it's really that bad.

I lived in a couple of them in Boca Raton and Boynton Bch. Florida and believe me if someone wanted to get in, which happened several times, then they will.

Making TV a true gated community would skyrocket the cost of living here. Once a community becomes truly gated, the community is responsible for all the streets which would include pot holes, repainting lines, repaving, etc. A provision would have to be made at all gates for a vehicle to turn around before entering each Village. Currently, there is no room to do that and it would cost a bundle.

Shimpy -- you are correct. We are from the same area as you. There are far more breakins in gated communities than non-gated. The belief is there is "better stuff" in gated communities.
Rollie
02-19-2015, 05:22 AM
Bonanza..............where did you find the stats on your statement?

Rollie
Chatbrat
02-19-2015, 05:23 AM
How about removing the gates and installing stop signs with red light cameras--it appears to me there are at least 10 gates whacked each year @ the St. James gate
john1953
02-19-2015, 05:26 AM
Charles Mason if he wasn`t locked up could get threw a gate in the villages.Their a joke
graciegirl
02-19-2015, 07:04 AM
Just curious, does anyone know whether the Sheriff's Deputies, Fire Dept, and EMS have to stop, and wait for the gates to go up, or do they have remotes to raise the gates as they approach? If they have to stop and wait that could delay an emergency response.


I keep thinking about this, and wonder why someone would ask. At the very most, the emergency responders would encounter one, maybe two gates.
JoMar
02-19-2015, 12:08 PM
Charles Mason if he wasn`t locked up could get threw a gate in the villages.Their a joke

You do know this isn't a gated community right?
memason
02-19-2015, 01:01 PM
Charles Mason if he wasn`t locked up could get threw a gate in the villages.Their a joke

Make sure you get that "N" in there....MANSON!
Bogie Shooter
02-19-2015, 01:13 PM
Make sure you get that "N" in there....MANSON!

And the "ere". Isn't it fun to be pickey?
Bogie Shooter
02-19-2015, 01:15 PM
How about removing the gates and installing stop signs with red light cameras--it appears to me there are at least 10 gates whacked each year @ the St. James gate

There appears, how so?
memason
02-19-2015, 01:30 PM
And the "ere". Isn't it fun to be pickey?

Well Bogie....if you look at my name, you know why I like to have the N in Manson.... but hey, whatever
MikeV
02-19-2015, 01:53 PM
Turned on to Canal Street from 466A. Sheriff car right behind me. Used my card to pass through the gate. Looked in my mirror and the gate opened for the Sheriff's car right after me. I couldn't tell if he used a gate card but the gate opened quickly so I "assume" he had a gate card.
dbussone
02-19-2015, 02:01 PM
How about removing the gates and installing stop signs with red light cameras--it appears to me there are at least 10 gates whacked each year @ the St. James gate

This would result in at least that number of golf carts getting whacked each year.