[Mrs.Guy]

Originally Posted by TrapX

The solution should be the one to lower costs for everyone.
Best savings: That would be no gates at all.
2nd best: If doing thigs the old way is really adding some warm and fuzzy benefit, make them work like the exit gates. That's next lowest cost because: No buttons. No cards, No new systems. No staff salaries to administer the system. No costs for new hardware, computers and ongoing yearly maintenance. Fewer broken arms to repair.
Worst thing: Spend $270k to replicate something that has zero actual value. Spend our money to do all the things that the first 2 solutions can avoid. Spend even more to "enhance" the system so it behaves like the exit gate arms. Seems like a huge waste of OUR money.

Did they put up those gates AFTER you moved here or did you NOT notice them and how they worked?

Or another possibility could be that people move here because they love how things are done and then once here enjoy complaining about things????? I can't figure it out.....

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by TrapX

The solution should be the one to lower costs for everyone.
Best savings: That would be no gates at all.
2nd best: If doing thigs the old way is really adding some warm and fuzzy benefit, make them work like the exit gates. That's next lowest cost because: No buttons. No cards, No new systems. No staff salaries to administer the system. No costs for new hardware, computers and ongoing yearly maintenance. Fewer broken arms to repair.
Worst thing: Spend $270k to replicate something that has zero actual value. Spend our money to do all the things that the first 2 solutions can avoid. Spend even more to "enhance" the system so it behaves like the exit gate arms. Seems like a huge waste of OUR money.

You might not feel this "best" if you get rammed by some bozo entering their village at 50 mph.

[Altavia]

Originally Posted by Mrs.Guy

Did they put up those gates AFTER you moved here or did you NOT notice them and how they worked?

Or another possibility could be that people move here because they love how things are done and then once here enjoy complaining about things????? I can't figure it out.....

Well, when I moved in, our gate was still in construction mode and essentially worked like the exit gates with no card or button press required.

I was "hopeful" they were changing to this method in the new areas.

[Gpsma]

Get rid of these gates...what are they here for? To protect golf carts?
Golf carts should be only on a golf course...thats why they are called GOLF carts.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Get rid of these gates...what are they here for? To protect golf carts?
Golf carts should be only on a golf course...thats why they are called GOLF carts.

& to protect walkers, runners, roller-bladers, segwayers.

So let's get rid of everything and everyone.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Get rid of these gates...what are they here for? To protect golf carts?
Golf carts should be only on a golf course...thats why they are called GOLF carts.

Yeah, right. You did know this is a golf cart community???

[Mrs.Guy]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Get rid of these gates...what are they here for? To protect golf carts?
Golf carts should be only on a golf course...thats why they are called GOLF carts.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Get rid of these gates...what are they here for? To protect golf carts?
Golf carts should be only on a golf course...thats why they are called GOLF carts.

The Developer thought otherwise...

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

what were you discouraged from doing??

You lost me here. Don't quite know what you are referring to.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

We pulled up so close we scraped the tires. The "hold it up to the window" trick does NOT work with our cards...

The mirror chip works if the tires are a foot or so away from the curb...

Good that the mirror chip works for you. I've never had one installed on our vehicle so will just continue to use the card.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Then why would you post this?

"You need to pull close enough to the card reader."

You can't pull up any closer than when your tires are scraping the curb...

I get it. Your card does not work through the window even if you are on top of the card reader. I just read a couple of posts ago that you scraped your tires trying to get the card reader to work through the window. My comment to pull close to the card reader was several posts ago.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Put a chip in your mirror... I've yet to find a gate where that doesn't work...

I would love to use the chip in the mirror but hubby and I have one car and he does not want to have the chip installed. Oh well, he won that one. I really don't mind having to put the card up to the window but it surely would be nice not having to do that.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Get rid of these gates...what are they here for? To protect golf carts?
Golf carts should be only on a golf course...thats why they are called GOLF carts.

Oh no, no, no. You cannot be serious. Many people here use their golf carts as their main mode of transportation here in The Villages. That is what makes this community so unique. Our infrastructure is fantastic and one of a kind in the world to accommodate golf cart transportation to so many restaurants, doctors, retail stores, pharmacies and all sorts of stuff that people go to on a daily basis. The MM Paths is what makes our community special.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I really don't understand why people think it's such a hardship to use the card. Are y'all the wicked witch of the west, that you melt when exposed to water - when it's raining? Do you never take showers, or go to the pool? Or wash your faces or hands? Are you afraid your custom-woven virgin raw silk upholstery in your Rolls Royce will get bleached if you have to roll the window down on a sunny day, long enough to stick a card out and pull it back again?

I mean - what kind of obsessive compulsive disorder or phobia must one have, to be SO averse to using a gate card to get through a gate, in a community where the advertisement shows that there are gates, that people use cards to get through? Why in the world did you move to the Villages at all, if this is so profoundly offensive to your sensibilities that the very thought of using a gate card to get a gate open sends your mind spiraling into rage?

It's a gate. It's a card. It's not a big deal. The [religious] Space Lasers aren't going to come out of the card and steal your soul like the cameras in the microwave ovens do.

Such silliness.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Get rid of these gates...what are they here for? To protect golf carts?
Golf carts should be only on a golf course...thats why they are called GOLF carts.

Thanks. We needed a HAHA now. HAHA! 😄😃