--- In [email protected], Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I'm on a roll what is the point of all those laminated bridge > number signs that I've seen attached to wooden posts littering the > Coventry and Oxford canals in the past couple of days? Do they really > serve any useful purpose? Actually when I say littering the canal at > least half a dozen of them are already in there and no doubt the rest > will follow shortly. (Lets hope so anyway ;-) ) > > Steve > NB Bream > This is a Health & Safety thing, as shown on Customer Service Standards 2008/2009 leaflet sent to all licence holders. Item 2a -1 States 'Bridges are clearly signed on both sides with an identifying number'. A conscession has been subsequently allowed to permit a bridge name rather than number. This is so that in an emergency 'a customer' can identify their location when calling upon assistance. As the Standards were issued for compliance w.e.f. 1st April 2008 each waterway unit found that the signmakers were overloaded with work (and taking piles of cash to the bank no doubt) so temporary ones had to be affixed to ensure compliance. The more expensive permanent solution to this perceived problem will following in due course, no doubt with a day's closure of the length affected so that the signs can be safely installed.
And whilst I'm on a roll what about the cost of the three wooden mooring posts being installed and ruining the heritage as has already been stated, they must cost ewven more than signs and are a bigger hazard than the problem they were supposed to solve (I assume boats surging forward or backward in a lock when the paddles are raised). Clive
