Ron Jones laid this down on his screen : > Adrian Stott wrote: >> 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 > > > Maybe (at renewal time) we should be given a list of canals/rivers that we > want to use, the license then based on boat length & boat width & potential > miles/locks of our selected choice. Since BW can check licenses with a > laptop, it should be easy for them to see a boat "out of place". > > Ron Jones Just turn the clock back, employ lock keepers and pay a toll to go through each lock.
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