--- In [email protected], "Mike Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tony Brooks wrote: > > I have just had a response from BW concerning the email I sent them > > about that online quiz. > > > > It appears that it is considered uneconomic to make walkers, cyclists > > and fishermen contribute to BW finances on a simmilar scale to > > boaters and police the annti-social ones, > > Not only is it uneconomic, but probably physically impossible. > > > so BW with government > > encouragement have decided that boaters are going to pay a lot more > > in license fees - so much for having cheaper boats. If we end up, a > > couple of years down the line with a 100% hike in fees how many of us > > will be able to afford to boat on BW waters? > > This argumemt shows the fallacy of the policy of the present CEO of BW to > try to make the organisation independent of Government Grant-in Aid. The > vast majority of users of the waterways are in the categories that can't be > charged directly - not only the direct users that Tony cites (incidentally > he's wrong about fishermen - they do pay if they keep the rules), but also > those who simply enjoy the view from a bridge or the bottom of their garden. > Then there are those who unknowingly benefot from land drainage into the > canals. There is one category that all these users come into - > taxpayers - and it's in that capacity that they can be charged - through > Goverment Grant-in-Aid. > > Mike Stevens
I do not think I am - I never said they did not pay - I said they do nopt contribute on a simmilar scale to boaters. I bet few fishermen pay BW between £150 and £250 per year. I suspect they pay their clubs about £50 per year who may pay BW the equivelent of (say) £20 per year per member. At least a BW rod license of about £100 per year would make the fishermes use of the canals appear more related to their usage. Tony Brooks ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/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/
