So no change there. --- On Sun, 11/30/08, Roger Millin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Roger Millin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Licence fees - latest news To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 12:32 PM Bruce made this final point: > If one applies the pure commercial principles (got it!) to BW's operations > then the problem of continuous moorers will never be dealt with in a > satisfactory manner. There is no commercial benefit in actually tackling the > problem. If a way can be found to extract an increase in income from the > activities of that group of users so be it, if not the problem will be > effectively ignored. Couldn't agree more. It is basically the point that I made in the last part of my earlier posting. BW have no incentive to pursue CMs as it gains them little other than the approval of the legit boaters and the legit CCs. You can't spend approval so it's easier to just let them stay as it would cost manpower and finances to chase them. IMO, BW only started to chase unlicensed boats when they realised that there was a head of steam rising among the majority of licensed boaters about the number of unlicensed craft getting away with it at a time when they BW were proposing swingeing increases in licence fees. It also raises revenue which is 'useful' to them. I still feel that they aren't doing enough by the way, except to keep spinning the news with how many craft they have chased and enforced or removed from the waterway. What they have done is only the tip of the iceberg but they still don't seem willing to really hit known blackspot areas. Roger [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
