Hi, I have read all of the replies to this thread and I presume others by the same chap, and must say that he appears to be the only one with any proposals, everyone else appears to be just saying you are wrong, if what he has been saying is so wrong then some of you need to put forward your alternatives, not just keeping on with you are wrong argument.
I must agree that the amount of boats that are moored along the length of the canals has increased and as such is making what used to be a pleasure into an obstacle course, and I am looking to start a club called HWCSBC, it stands for "Hiding Waiting to Catch a Speeding Boat Club" could perhaps add with lose mooring ropes, as there seems to be a lot of them about. I always slow down when passing moored boats but even that isn't enough for some people they have their mooring ropes lose so no matter what speed you pass there is going to be some movement, albeit I do take particular care where they are on pins. ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Stott To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:26 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Shades of ''The 3 Horseshoes'' "tiamiboat" <[email protected]> wrote: >The canal is of finite length with a limited amount of facilities including moorings. You can't keep on filling it up with boats or you'll be able to walk from London to Birmingham by boat without getting wet. What's the solution .... some might say market forces and economics i.e. pricing structures .... over to you Adrian! Already discussed. But you may not like it <g>. BW's charges (except for moorings) are now well below the market-clearing level, as evidenced by the continuing increase in the number of boats. So, BW increases its navigation charges to the point of maximum revenue. A number of current boaters will decide to take up another hobby, but BW will still be ahead (fewer boats, but more revenue from each on average). The waterways will be less crowded. Also might consider transit charges for overly-busy (e.g. Braunston flight) or water shortage routes, to encourage less traffic there and more on lightly-used ones. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
