--- In [email protected], 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 A lurker who wants a say! Sizism is the same as CC`s, as long as it is not you who are suffering then the blame is theirs. The one thing that really gets to me is the me, me , me way you look at things. Seen a boat moored for more than 14 days....crush the boat, it has NO Rights to be there. But then a boat that has a wide beam, here`s the maths to say it`s not right to charge more. Everything that you say is everything that BW or any employer (not that I`m saying you are in anyway involved with BW ) wants to hear, because instead of looking into the best way that WE all can go forward, you divide everyone with misdirection. What is needed on the waterways is the one thing that is missing....to be together in what we DON`T want. Don`t say that it can never happen, Maggie got her just rewards for the poll tax, we can also get our just rewards for the waterways if we are as one in one thing.....the waterways, not in our own little beefs, this lock was slow,this mooring had no rings,the grass was to long here, each time your own big problem is brought forward, the big picture is made smaller. Just how they want it, divide people, then we can do anything we want because everyone is pulling in a different direction and will blame the others for the new rules. You`ve rattled on about CC`s and now they are thinking ( hic ) about charging for honey pot moorings to stop the CC`s from over staying.....great move.... now you, who have paid your marina moorings, have now to pay to moor at a place that was paid for by your licence fee, before your moaning....great job. Each time that we want something to be fair, then our own selfness becomes the top of the list thing to shout about. This waterway system has been going for 200years or more, it was on the brink of collapse but for a few who did`nt think of me, me, me. We are now going through a time when we all should be looking to the future of the waterways, not the short sighted me, me, me way. £50 is not a a large amount to put towards the maintance of the waterways, Fight to have the charges for broad beam dropped by all means, then give the £50 to a place you know the money will be spent on the waterways. I will now vacate my soap box
