Recently noticing one BW checker who seemed unbothered by boats moored in areas where there were actually BW no mooring signs, I commented to a local about the chaps lack of commitment. He, calling the chap a waste of space, told me that round the bend one boat had been moored on a 48 hour mooring for two years and Mr BW passed the time of day with him when he wandered by doing ... well could someone tell me what he, with machine did exactly do. -- On Thu, 10/2/08, rb999sb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: rb999sb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Working narrowboats to pay the £50 "broad" beam surcharge?! (XP) To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 8:45 PM --- In canals-list@ yahoogroups. com, Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snipped > Surely they only need to visit each location every 14 days? In any case > the point is to warn people that this could happen then police it most > aggressively in known trouble spots. Bit like, ummm, mobile speed > cameras (not sure this analogy will popularise my idea ;-) ) > > Another thought which occurs is that BW already have lots of patrol > officers wandering up and down the cut noting who is where on their hand > held computers (indeed I saw one today) it would not take rocket science > programming to download the data at the end of the day, compare boat > locations to previous information and build action lists (or even send > automated bills out by post!) That way there is almost no additional cost. > > Steve > NB Bream > You are assuming they have post boxes. Sue [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
