[canals-list] Re: Working narrowboats to pay the £50 "broad" beam surcharge?! (XP)

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--- In canals-list@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Steve Heaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:35 +0100, Adrian Stott wrote:
> >
> >> There is no such rationale for charging wider craft more.
> >
> >There is no such rationale for charging longer craft more either, 
but we
> >haven't heard you complaining about that in the past.
> 
> That must be because you've been listening in the wrong places.
> 
> I have made this exact point to BW on several occasions.
> 
> My cure for it, as for the proposed over-charging of wider craft, is
> to replace the current charges completely with one which varies with
> the length (in km) of the cruising range of the boat from its home
> mooring (and the length of the period for which the ticket is 
valid).
> For a full-length nb, this range would clearly not include quite a 
few
> waterways, so its charge would be less than that for a craft short
> enough to use e.g. the S&SYN to Sheffield..  
> 
> The principle seems clear to me.  It is already nonsense to charge a
> broad boat based in (e.g.) Nottingham for the right to use either 
the
> Oxford Canal or the K&A.  It is clearly even worse to charge it 
*more*
> for that right than a nb pays.
> 
> As I've said, this is simply sizism, an example of discrimination
> based unjustly on an irrelevant characteristic, an approach which
> society has found to be unacceptable in other fields.
> 
> Adrian
> 
> .
> 
> 
> Adrian Stott
> 07956-299966
>
Bw could just adopt EA's system.
Sue