"Neil Arlidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Adrian Stott wrote:
>> Take a look at the B&B Canal in Ireland. > >I think the locals like to call it the Shannon Erne Waterway Education, education, education. >> No added delay for boaters. > >Apart for the fact that the locks at switched off overnight (20.00 to 09.00) >the clocks on most of the locks are wildly out. The most lathargic lock we >found was Lock No9 Kilclare, it did not wake up until 09.35! Well, that isn't the fault of the technology, but the navigation authority that operates it. > >> Not too expensive to implement either. > >...during a total rebuild, paid for by the EU? That was clearly the time to install it. However, I suspect the marginal cost at that time isn't unreasonable. > >> And with computerised >> equipment, it would be easy to turn the things on only when there is >> congestion. > >Congestion?...in Ireland?...I have seen the Rochdale busier! That comment referred back to earlier posting, where the use of lock charges to control congestion at busy locations/times was being discussed. That is a different use for charges than basic revenue generation (the purpose for it on the Irish waterways). David Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the locks in Ireland don't get traffic at rates like those at Grindley, > Napton, along the Middlewich branch and so on. And as for pay as you go how > (for example) do you stop boats going through non-electric locks without > paying and without lock keepers (or men to give out lock tickets or sell > passes (right change only?)). You don't. For congestion charging, you need to kit out only one lock in the congested length. In fact, for revenue charging, you would also need to kit out probably no more than one lock in ten. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
