[email protected] wrote:
>
> 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, wed 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 Im 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 o=
> n the K&A post re-opening when there are so many canal businesses which dep=
> end on the waterway remaining complete. Not to mention the fact that the M=
> inister responsible for waterways has a great chunk of the K&A in his const=
> ituency. 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 ga=
> te 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 i=
> magine 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 w=
> as frozen and engineering thus impossible. I don't think we should read to=
> o 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 fo=
> r the crew's programme, Bruce'll change his mind.
>
I'm sure I remember somebody saying something about BW and 'divide and rule' on
this list recently. And I can't think of anything likely to be more divisive
among waterway enthusiasts than "Which waterways shall we close?"
Come to think of it, didn't somebody who has been accused of being an apologist
for BW suggest something similar on here a litte while ago...
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