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Old 02-25-2021, 01:44 PM
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I stand corrected on exit gates, my comments relate to entry gates.
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Old 02-25-2021, 02:13 PM
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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?

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Old 02-25-2021, 02:24 PM
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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?

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Driving past a gate a little while ago a golf cart did follow a car thru a gate and did must make it thru.
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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!
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Old 02-25-2021, 09:17 PM
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You cannot see the one in Marshbend when the sun comes up in the morning. Nothing wrong with my eyes or driving. When the sun hits those colors in the morning they are invisible until you get abot 15 feet away from it.
But, you know the villages has gates right?
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I have been known to stop at an entry gate when the gate is laying on the ground. Just habit.
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Old 02-26-2021, 08:14 PM
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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.
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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.
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