Wednesday 23 July 2014

Toilet communications

In a move entirely unrelated (honest) with the uproar caused by the draconian imposition of 48-hr moorings on most of the handful of mooring spots on the Lancaster Canal the Canal and River Trust has suddenly decided to communicate with boaters.
Their chosen method is a single sheet of A4 paper stapled to the inside of the toilet door at Garstang services.
And the message comes not from the Waterways Manager but from the unelected members of the Waterways Partnership who have been behind the whole ill-considered, unresearched plot from the beginning.
The note also announces that the moorings will be monitored by volunteers, who will also 'greet' visitors. I assume these are the ones taking pictures of moored boats yesterday, and I assume they have been advised to wear lifejackets as they poke and pry into the privacy of boaters.
The vigilante volunteers, armed with cameras, were conveniently unmentioned when I asked Waterways Manager Chantelle Seaborn about policing her new mooring strategy. She assured me she couldn't do that.
Meanwhile, on the overcrowded visitor moorings at Garstang, CRT has decided it is perfectly acceptable to take up space with a large workboat - you couldn't make it up.

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