Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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CAUTION New Gates Have Started
Just a warning that some of the entrance gates have been changed already.Noticed this AM Bonita & Canal gate is now longer and you MUST use the swipe pass to get thru. Golf cart won't squeeze by.
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Patchogue, NY; Village of Bonita Sept.09 Last edited by skip0358; 02-17-2011 at 02:55 PM. Reason: Change Title |
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Thanks for heads up , heading that way later!
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I don't understand the point of the new gates since anybody can get in whether resident or not.
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This way, you can't squeeze through in case a train comes.
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay) "There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
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Darn Trains
And you cannot be too careful with respect to trains going down Canal.
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Sally Bowron Cincinnati, Ohio; Osceola Hills at Soaring Eagle, TV When God made me he said Ta Da! |
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If I remember correctly, wasn't this required to conform to some crazy federal regulations regarding highway signs, etc.?
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not sure if federal or state reg...
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Holyoke, Mass; East Granby, Monroe, Madison and Branford, Conn; Port Clyde, Maine; North Myrtle Beach, SC; The Village of Bonita (April 2009 - ) |
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I almost bought that gate this afternoon. It was really close.
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Villager from 2000 until they take me out in a small box!!! |
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we went South on Canal and it was there - people in carts stopping to hit the button. Then on our way back (from Colony Plaza) there was a worker there and the gate was up, and it looked to me like it had been changed back to the shorter one (but not sure).
If they do this, wonder if they are going to offer more free gate cards for those who have more than 1 car and 1 golf cart. |
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I wish we could just scan the barcode on our new Villages ID and not have to have the separate card for the gates.
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Pturner, hope they thought of that, but I don't think so. Great idea, though. We were trying to figure out where we would keep the gatecards in the golf carts (and be able to reach them easily). This could be a real pain.
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I like how some of the gates have a go around that doesn't even use the gate. Makes no sense to now have to use a pass on some, and others you can go around the gate to the trail.
Something tells me it is a gov't thing. |
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Update
As of approx 5PM Thrusday, the northbound gate on Canal @ Bonita has been shortened and you can proceed through without using a card.
LED
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Jackie & Larry Duff The Village of Hemingway |
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That's sounds like a great idea; except you see how many people at the golf courses and rec centers have trouble scanning these new cards. Imagine that at the gates.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759) |
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Wahoo
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LI SNOWBIRD LI, Tall Trees "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." Plato |
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