--- "Neil Arlidge" <ne...@...> wrote
> EA Thames understands about tides...and boaters who may have very little
> leeway about what time they arrive at Teddington, if transiting the Thames
> Tideway and need to plan to/from afar. I have at a good few times
> exited/arrived at Teddington at "silly o'clock".
> With BW as good as cutting out the use of Bow Lock (apart from booked
> passages "In Hours", when a tide is often not available) and limited opening
> at Brenford, Limehouse is the first point of entry as you enter the inland
> waterways system AND the first safe haven as you come up the Tidal Thames,
> with a lock which can be operate at virtually any state of the tide (OK, so
> not LW Springs).
> The existing opening hours are daft, if a workable tide is available, then
> tbe lock should be operable.
> The only sensible way out of this for BW, if then continue with this
> stupididy, is a great expense to provide DECENT waiting pontoons, connected
> SAFELY to the land, just outside the mouth of Limehouse Lock. I have seen
> too many disasters of boaters trying to get on the short pontoon(s) in the
> mouth of the lock.
> This is madness in the Capital city of a "major"!? seafaring nation...yet
> again BW have lost the plot.
Will you be telling them so, Neil? Hopefully they would listen to someone with
the amount of experience you have!
