peteuk wrote: > --- In [email protected], Martin > Clark <ya...@...> wrote: >> >> Bruce Napier wrote: >>> I'm in a very pessimistic mood today about the future of the system. >>> We're currently slogging along the eastern K&A; I guess if >>> Defra/BW/EA have to bear there full share of the 25% cuts, and we >>> can be sure the farmers don't get clobbered, then we can look >>> forward to substantial amounts of deterioration in the near future. >>> >>> All this debate about a National Waterways Authority is all very >>> well, but where's the money coming from? >>> >>> Anybody else here remember the 70s? >>> >>> 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! >> >> Nah - you're just being silly there! >> >> The Llangollen Canal and the Shropshire Union seem to have spent the >> most time having closures recently, so they are the most obvious >> candidates! -- > > Wrong - those mothballing candidites should be those lesser used > routes - Hudd - Rochdale etc. > > Pete
Bonjour. Following our brief trippet en France, my vote for mothballing is for the Scarpe Superior, followed by the Somme. -- Neil Arlidge Barge Maurice A / NB Earnest TNC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
