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Thinking outside the box. Don't suppose you fancy being CEO of the Canal and River Trust?

I'm pretty sure it's not navigable in anything but a punt. Have you tried Osney Mill marina?

I didn't carefully avoid your question I meticulously ignored it.

I totally agree the super duper comms system should be bottom of the list.

What I do know is under this shower i.e. lightweights who created the current system and who don't maintain the paddles, very few boats can get to the tunnel to use any comms system.

Are you sure about that?🤣 As it's only April and there's already been 3 stoppages on the HNC I suggest the money would be better spent maintaining the paddles. No point in a super duper communications system if boats can't reach the tunnel. Only my opinion though and I don't give a fook if anyone asked me to back it up with facts and figures.

Don't know if this will work https://earth.google.com/web/search/Ducie+Street,+Manchester,+UK/@53.47985581,-2.2287178,60.11736378a,143.43292803d,35y,318.40164623h,0t,0r/data=CigiJgokCZadtcJIezRAEZOdtcJIezTAGRbPNaP4kj9AIV0sMmQuo1HAOgMKATA Usually room near the white footbridge

I've moored overnight at the bottom of the Ashton just around from the junction with the Rochdale. Seemed as safe as anywhere and easy distance from the venue.

"So the solution is to make the charge (e.g. £3/night) for every night including the first one. Then a boat without a home mooring would pay £3*365=£1100 per year, at the same time they pay their (similar) CART license fee. Still *much* cheaper than a typical home mooring" ??? 'cos it would be a lot cheaper.

Why don't crt just raise fees for all

...but wouldn't many marina dwellers just leave and moor on the towpath where it's cheaper? Might make it difficult to find a mooring in popular places.

I never claimed it would save £millions but it would prevent a few stoppages. Why would the government remove £10m from the grant? Therese Coffey said CRT's role is to maintain the waterways - never mentioned non essentials.

Junior fishing courses on EA waters, two tone van livery, lock poetry, sponsored Facebook adverts ........(add your own here) and I promised not to mention blue signs again so I won't. .... all would fix a paddle or two and prevent a stoppage.

We had similar experience up here. Repairs at Figure of Three cost around £3.5m. A colleague, who was one of the first to go through after it reopened told me they hadn't fixed the hydraulic valve on the offside gate which had been broken for years. When I asked the Regional Director why, he told me it had been fixed but obviously broke again (instantly???). Lightweights!!

To be fair to C&RT, and naturally I always am, there was over 2m of fresh recorded at Aldwark Bridge last week. Flooding up to the top step in the pic is considered trivial by us tough Yorkshire types. 😅

Lock 8 was supposedly worked on in the winter program but clearly bodged! How hard is it to fix a paddle before the other one breaks and causes a stoppage? "Wait until it breaks completely" policy is a disgrace. And don't blame lack of money it's same cost and cheaper than a sponsored Facebook advert

Rochdale & HNC both currently closed again and it's only April 15 "Please be advised navigation remains closed at Lock 28 West on the Diggle Flight on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal due to broken paddles". "We continue to experience significant water management problems at lock 8 on the Rochdale Canal. Leakage through the lock gates is creating ongoing local difficulties in navigation," What happened to Winter Maintenance? When will the C&RT apologists realise Parrry & Co are a waste of space?

With a permanent mooring you would get a license and state your Home Mooring

Maybe they should fix the Vazon Bridge and have a sliding canal 😆

Reported on NBW NBTA said "CRT’s licence surcharge came into effect on 1st April the assciations tells. Unchallenged, the policy will allow CRT to raise licence fees on itinerant boaters in order to price them off the water. " If C&RT raised all licenses to the level of the surcharge would that price everyone off the water or would the NBTA be happy to be paying same as Home Moorers? IMO it would be a good idea for C&RT - extra money and less admin headache.

Fix a few paddles on the Rochdale & Huddersfield though.

Not if they closed the BCN, Grand Union, Coventry and Oxford canals and put the money into keeping the Yorkshire waterways open. (playing another Devil's Advocate). 😜

Yes that may happen and the danger is the extra would probably just get spent on more & more non-essentials. At least it would be a better option than this surcharge idea which is going to be an administrative headache. It wouldn't, but it would fix a few paddles. Many stoppages are caused by minor issues. Letting the ground staff fix a few instead of bringing in contractors might get canals open a lot faster and save a few bob for the bigger jobs.