On 24 Jun 2010, at 18:07, John Slee wrote:
> On 24/06/2010 16:52, Bruce Napier wrote:
>> I've just said this in the blog:
>>
>>> For my money, we‚d be better to mothball some of the less popular
>>> and badly maintained routes until the wheel turns again, rather than
>>> struggle to keep the whole system going. That would lead to an
>>> acrimonious debate about which canals to close down for a bit, of
>>> course, but I‚m thinking of the ones which spend a lot of their time
>>> stopped anyway, so K&A, Huddersfield Narrow, Rochdale above
>>> Manchester...
>>>
>>> I await the howls of rage!
>>>
>>
>
> No need to wait for the howl any longer. NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
<snip>
He's only winding us up, John. Probably.
I can't see BW effectively writing off the £25m+ lottery win they spent on the
K&A post re-opening when there are so many canal businesses which depend on the
waterway remaining complete. Not to mention the fact that the Minister
responsible for waterways has a great chunk of the K&A in his constituency. I
don't know much about BW's accounting practices, but I would be amazed if they
don't have a contingency sum for events like this week's gate failure on Caen
Hill. That flight may be a maintenance headache, but it is also heavily
promoted as one of the 7 wonders of the UK waterways. I imagine there is also
a backlog of repairs arising at least in part from the constraint on last
winter's stoppages when for much of the time the area was frozen and
engineering thus impossible. I don't think we should read too much into the
government's posturing at this stage.
Once 'Sanity Again' has done the K&A - or at east as much as is possible for
the crew's programme, Bruce'll change his mind.
Baz
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