Will Chapman wrote:
> I disagree Nigel. I've done a number of interviews recently
> since the launch of SOW (and I expect more soon) and I am
> surprised that someone hasn't asked 'If Defra/Brown refuse
> to reverse the cuts what is the alternative?.' I think that
> a wide ranging debate about a National Waterways Trust could
> well offer Govt a way out.
I have some sympoathy with the crfeation of a National Waterways Trust, but
think that the navigational responsibilites need to much more separate from
the property side of the thing, as I don;t believe that a single Board of
Directors is capable of doing justice to both. That's why I've advocate in
an earlier posting the formation of a separate National Inland Navigation
Authority and a property organisation to play a role in funding it. It may
be that The Waterways Trust might become the basis of the property/funding
body. Or perhaps that's what BW should become if NINA (the National Inland
Navigation Authority) should come into being. But, for reasons of my
general view of what Government ought to be about, I'd still want to see a
substantial contribution to the costs from the oublic purse.
--
Mike Stevens
narrowboat Felis Catus III
web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk
No man is an island. So is Man.
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