On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:46:30 +0100, Brian on Harnser <[email protected]> wrote:
>[email protected] wrote : > >> >> And no more gold licences! >> >But they would still require the same income so we would all need to >pay more, its not just the Thames, you also have the Fens to pay for. Among other benefits from this might therefore be that at last we could have a zero-based review of how and what boaters pay for the right for a boat to use the waterways. For example, no longer charging for the right to use waterways the boat can't fit in (e.g. full-length narrow boats and the Leed & Liverpool) My barge can't get to the fens waterways (without a truck or a hazardous sea voyage), so why should its licence include the right to use those waterways? OTOH, that might provide a wonderful incentive to BW to provide a broad bypass to the Northampton branch (maybe by a lift between the GU and the Nene at Weedon), because then it would be able to increase the charges for craft such as mine. There are many ways moving to a combined authority could result in significant improvements into how the waterways are managed, as well as by whom. Adrian Adrian Stott Tel. UK (0)7956-299966
