In this case this load of bollards is more a Genesis (by the BW office daleks). Than Genesis of the daleks. Talking to one BW man who had been drag ed off more important real canal works to spend the summer installing the things they are a waste of time and (our) efforts. Has anyone worked out the cost of this lot in money for bollards, clearing ground, digging, concreting? That they are going in so quick and were available in huge numbers smells of preplanning long before the H&S rules came out - unless BW had the odd few thousand bollards laying about unused. This happened with the hydraulic paddles years ago - when they had brought thousands and had to find somewhere to stick them so off came perfectly good gear to be replaced by... Later the hydraulics were declared dangerous and most were removed and lost in the system. Bureaucratic Waste rules OK!
--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Bollards To: "Canals List" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 8:00 PM 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? 末 All the best Bruce There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
