From: "Bruce Napier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Canals List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:00 PM Subject: [canals-list] Bollards
I had a rant on the blog yesterday about the three bollards per narrow lock idiocy, which made me wonder if anyone has any clue why BW thought this was such a good idea. They are all over the Delph 9 and Stourbridge 16, and seem to be spreading from there onto the Staffs and Worcs. (see http://nbsanity.blogspot.com/) I can't recall any serious account of the genesis of it - what's the point? I asked Jim Stirling (used to be BW Scotland Director but is now Technical director of BW) why BW was installing what we thought were unnecessary bollards on narrow locks (we had just done the Llangollen). His reply was that they were there to help shorter boats which might surge back and forwards in a lock - he mentioned GRP cruisers. It is a H & S issue apparently. Ann
