Scottish Canals Consultation

[Alan de Enfield]

 

 

All boaters who use the Lowland Canals in Scotland are encouraged by the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) to respond to Scottish Canals’ consultation about user operation on the Forth & Clyde and Union canals.

The Lowland Canal Operations Consultation is open until week commencing 20th January 2020 and asks boaters to let them have their views on multiple issues.

These include meeting customer demand and how Scottish Canals operate the canals – including the potential of extending user and remote operations at key locations, designing operating hours around customer demand and ensuring that boaters get training where necessary; and how Scottish Canals allocates its resources to tackle major issues such as dredging and weed control.

Other topics include how boaters can send in feedback on obstacles or issues and improving communication, customer experience and transparency, including being able to book and pay online for transits, licences and other services.

IWA supports the proposals by Scottish Canals to allow user operation of some of their locks and bridges.

The Lowland Canals would benefit from less restrictions to opening hours, along with as many structures being made available for user operation as possible, as these would facilitate increased use of these restored canals which in turn would bring all the economic and social benefits that vibrant busy waterways bring to local communities, said IWA.

[Dr Bob]

Better weather would be the starting point for me.

[ronnietucker]

Yep. Saw their email and filled in the survey.

Let's hope they listen!