Graham Davis

Tough, sunshine. That's the way it is and if you don't like it sell your boat and get off the canals. And if your illogical thoughts were followed to "your" end all it would do would be to increase licencing charges for ALL other boaters. Is that what you want or are you just being a selfish troll?

Have a read about Parry People Movers, and the "train" that runs the shuttle between Stourbrdge Junction and Stourbridge Town,, Biz. http://www.parrypeoplemovers.com/

Tough! If you don't like the rules then don't license your boat and see what happens. Hopefully you will get booted out as you have breached your contract with the marina. Then CaRT can chase you and take your boat off you. Or perhaps you don't think that rules apply to you!

Because that was all that was available at the time we were buying. And is quite common in this town.

But you said that this will all happen in the next decade. Yes, I suspect you are right it will work in the big cities, but it will take a lot longer than that to get out to villages like Bontdolgadfan or Staylittle (look them up). No dropped kerb because we would have to access into a passing place on a narrow road. 2 off us have applied and both of us have been refused for the same reason, and is why we have to park at the garages along the road.

You really don't get it do you? People can't just "install a charge point". I cannot guarantee parking outside my house. The Council will not allow me to have a dropped kerb fitted, due to where my house is, so I cannot have a drive. The electricity company refuse to bring power to our rented garages, and the Council refuse to sell them to us. Outside my garage is the ONLY place I can guarantee to park. It is too far from the house to run an extension cable. The electricity company have also stated that the supply to our road is inadequate for a charging point and it is us that would have to pay for an up-gradeat the moment. Whilst modifications MAY happen within the next decade in urban areas it will not happen that quickly in rural areas, simply because there is not the money to pay for it. And for your information I drive a 2 year old Euro 6 diesel because there is not a small petrol car that will tow my caravan, and a 30 year old petrol car on the weekend!

So it will take 5 hours to recharge............wow!! That is really useful.............NOT What happens if I need to do that trip twice? For example I get taken to the station 20 mies away in the morning, because there are no buses to the station, and then need picking up 4 hours later, whilst my wife needs the car inbetween to go shopping, at a different place? And how do I charge said car at home, where we have no drive, no garage with power, no charging points, and have to park at the road side, so would need to leave a lead across the pavement, which we are not allowed to do? As said, as usual people are totally forgetting that many of us do not live in urban areas.

Great if you live in an urban area, but as usual people seem to forget that a lot of people still live outside those urban areas. A 50 mile round trip to a supermarket or to the nearest railway station isn't unusual around here, and you can forget any other public transport.

Doesn't even have to be a row of terraces. Our cul-de-sac of 10 bungalows, none with on-plot garages, has 2 street lights. 4 of the bungalows are not directly on the road. And most of us have to park at 2 blocks of 4 garages at either end of the cul-de-sac, which the electricity company refuse to supply power to.

I have friends that live on a new development here. There are NO garages and none of them know of or have been told about any charging points. There have been NO charging points added to any streets around here, and I know of one house that did ask for one and was told that his supply would need up-grading before it could be done.

Err? What has that got to do with my quote?

I see no evidence of that, on both new developments or existing ones.

Blowing a hooley here!!

A boat, any boat, needs continual and regular maintenance! Take that attitude and your boat will not last long.

That company was dissolved in Feb 2016.

I would suggest the OP reads this thread and it's linked article: