2009/11/17 Neil Arlidge [email protected] > "Bad old days" - BWB had no money, too many staff sitting about doing > nothing. Repairs to Llangollen breaches, Blisworth and Harecastle, only > repaired by govt bail outs. Blisworth and Harecastle took ages because only > of use to boaters. > > "Good old days" - BWB started getting commercial and getting in money from > other sources. > This was not just from property, but from things such as "The backlog of > saftey" and Heritage Lottery Money. > Restoration renaissance. > Canals at peak condition in say 2003? > One could say that like almost all recent projects there was a lot of > capital spend about, but nothing for maitenance. >
The improvement's partly down to a change in attitude. Canals are more generally valued than they ever were. But 12 years of uninterrupted growth until the current recession might have something to do with the rest. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
