Will Chapman wrote: > Sue Burchett wrote: >> Turn stiles on the towpath at strategic intervals would sort it, >> with pre paid cards like the pump out cards.
How many yhears would it take for the income received (less the cost of issuing the cards and the maintenance costs) paid for the installation costs? If the technology is as reliable as the swipe-card pump-out machines, then I doubt whether a turstile would have paid for itself before it needed replacing. > That's one way. I also think it would work if part-time wardens > were paid to patrol the towpaths just after working hours and > on weekends asking cyclists and fishermen to present their licenses. At the moment a cycling permit is free of charge (IIRC), so that part of the warden's job would be pure cost and no income. And anglers are policed by the clubs to whom the fishing rights are leased (at least in the case of the more efficient clubs). But BW's income from fishing comes from the rents paid by the fishing clubs, so chasing up individual unauthorised anglers would add nothing to BW's income. > Note, too, that such part-time wardens could also be checking for > out-of-date navigation licences and boats that have over-stayed the > local mooring limits. That's done by mooring wardens. Mike Stevens nb Felis Catus III - currently in Hertford web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk No man is an island. So is Man. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
