David Morris wrote: > Apparently, BW are fixing yellow and black warning signs to all the > lock balance beans warning boaters of the presence of things like > cills in locks with little pictograms. Because the locks on the > Chesterfield are listed, there's been a concession made to permit > black and white signs to be used rather than black and yellow.
My understanding from a conversation a couple of days ago is that the roll out of these signs has been suspended pending discussions as BW had started to fit them without any consultation with interested waterway organisations. Personally I see no point in a sign which tells you to look at another sign a couple of feet away. Especially if the second sign has been painted in the wrong place, as many of them certainly have in the Staffordshire and Cheshire areas. While I'm on a roll what is the point of all those laminated bridge number signs that I've seen attached to wooden posts littering the Coventry and Oxford canals in the past couple of days? Do they really serve any useful purpose? Actually when I say littering the canal at least half a dozen of them are already in there and no doubt the rest will follow shortly. (Lets hope so anyway ;-) ) Steve NB Bream
