Maybe they are starting a new religion? --- On Fri, 8/8/08, Brian from sunny Suffolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Brian from sunny Suffolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Bollards To: [email protected] Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 9:33 PM After serious thinking John wrote : > Bruce wrote: > > 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 > > We have just cruised up the South Oxford and there are newly installed > bollards at each lock and are all of the cast metal type (most are covered > with brown sacking). Not here the haven't (Napton top lock) yet, there are 3 red crosses on the concrete ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
