Doesnt the district get the money and use it to repair the arm?

Maybe best said "gate ARMS" not gate "guards"..... but we knew you didn't mean the "guards/ambassadors, just havin' a little fun, not much of that around any more !

Make the gate arms out of structural steel. Will take a couple of weeks for the word to get out that running into them will result in a significant repair bill. After that, folks will start to pay attention.

Me too! I thought it was the guards.

Seriously??
 

Are you kidding? Stop signs WOULD work if people obeyed them. Spend some time watching intersections and see all the carts & bicycles running the stop signs with just a quick (or no) glance to see if it is clear. Fuhgetaboutit!

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Thats piggy backing. What do you do when tailgating and the vehicle ahead has to make an emergency stop? You are putting the driver ahead of you in danger. Why the hell are you in such a big hurry? Or so lazy to scan your card?

You did not cover golf cart safety in your rant.

Explain how the Developer benefits?

People here think stop signs are a suggestion to slow down a bit, almost nobody comes to a full stop.

Ticket for this and very quickly real estate taxes can get rolled back!:bigbow:

Define "such a big hurry." I've sat at an open exit gate for about 15 seconds waiting for it to come back down since I "knew" it was supposed to close and open between each car. There was no tailgating, the car in front was well around the circle and the gate was still up. The guy behind me finally let me know he was tired of waiting and he and I and at least one more car exited without the gate closing.

The best I can figure is the exit gate is triggered by a sensor in the road or by motion detection. It will usually (there are always exceptions) see a second vehicle and will not go back down until all vehicles have cleared. It seems the exit gates are designed to allow or encourage "piggy backing."

I stand corrected on exit gates, my comments relate to entry gates.

I didn't know you could sneak thru on entry gates with the car in front of you....do you think that's why some or most or all of the gate damage occurs? It must be the case....who doesn't know there is a gate at every entrance?

Joe

Driving past a gate a little while ago a golf cart did follow a car thru a gate and did must make it thru.

Lets put up swinging red lights like at rail road crossings. 3 billion lumen lights to brighten the area like a nuclear blast.
Gate guards dressed in neon green suits waving semaphore flags and 5 foot long flash light cones. There would still be gate arms being hit. Why? Because there are a lot of people in TV that have no business driving a motor vehicle. I watched a man at a bank teller machine park just past the machine. He got out of his vehicle and had to brace himself against his SUV so he wouldn't fall and then had to hold onto the teller machine he wouldn't fall. That guy shouldn't be allowed to drive a tricycle let alone a 4,000 lb car.
I don't know how long you have to live here before you can remember that there is a gate arm at the entrances to the different villages. If your memory is that faulty you don't need to be driving. If you CAN remember that there is a gate arm at the entrances but at a distance of a few feet can't see it, get your eyes tested or get off the road.
You could paint the gate arms in dayglow orange and it wouldn't make any difference, it would still get hit by someone who claims that they can't see the color because it isn't dayglow yellow. Color of the arm has no bearing on this problem, impaired or incompetent drivers are the problem.
Instead of hitting a gate arm one day someone might hit a bicycle rider. Oh wait, someone already has and drove off!

Usually when contracting the contractor get 1/2

But, you know the villages has gates right?

I have been known to stop at an entry gate when the gate is laying on the ground. Just habit.

I keep seeing this post and can’t figure out why so many guards are leaving the guard shacks and getting hit. Generally they just sit inside.

I agree about the arms being painted yellow. Anyone that knows anything about color theory knows that red (the arm) and green (the landscape) looks like brown. This is true, especially at dusk. The majority of us know the arms are there even if we are blinded by the sun or failing eyesight. Painting them yellow may alleviate some of the problem.