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From: "Captain Beeky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:16 AM
Subject: [canals-list] Pay as you chug, was Proposed new car tax (OT)
> On 11, Feb 2007, at 10:03, Adrian Stott wrote:
>
>> Captain Beeky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10, Feb 2007, at 10:47, Bruce Napier wrote:
>>>
>>>> Agreed the road pricing proposals have their downsides, but on
>>>> balance,
>>>> why shouldn't people pay by use?
>>>
>>> God forbid that kind of idea should ever spread to the waterways !
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> In fact, BW has been thinking about it. However, so far, it appears
>> that the marginal cost of a vessel navigating a km of waterway is very
>> very small, perhaps too small to charge for economically.
>>
>> OTOH, congestion charges at (e.g.) busy locks on busy summer weekends
>> look to me to be a very good idea. They would encourage the traffic
>> to go elsewhere, which would both reduce the congestion and get boats
>> on to under-used routes. Yet they would allow those who really need
>> to to use the (previously) congested routes at any time, by paying the
>> charge.
>>
>> I'm strongly in favour of this.
>
> It seems reasonable to me in theory as well, and has been aired on this
> list previously. That's why I nudged it back on the table.
>
> At least it is controversial and on topic.
>
> {;>)
>
> Beeky
>
And would this be instead of a licence?
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