Mack, David wrote... > >They still quote 4,500 boat movements per year - see >http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/liverpool-canal-link/benefits . > It says "Over 4,500 boat movements each year including visiting private, holiday hire, trip and restaurant boats."
A boat doing a return trip would presumably count as 2 "boat movements". Suppose a trip boat sets up and does 6 return trips from Albert Dock to Princes Dock each day for 250 days a year, that would make 3,000 boat movements! There is certainly the potential for that - Liverpool is full of tourists looking for more and more things to do. The "Yellow Duckmarine" was doing good business on a cold March morning this week and the open-top tour buses had plenty of passengers. There would be good potential for an evening restaurant boat cruise. Even one return trip per evening for 250 days a year would add another 500 movements, which would only leave 1,000 more to fill with the movements of visiting boats. Eight boats a day each way for 5 days a week through the normal boating season would add up to more than 2,000. I would have thought 4,500 is not such an impossible figure to achieve! -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
