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Post by kris on Sept 4, 2023 9:58:13 GMT
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Post by dogless on Sept 4, 2023 10:16:49 GMT
Perhaps it's a method of making the savings bite for the maximum number of people, raising awareness of the issue.
To be frank I'd rather money went into supporting the system rather than bins.
Rog
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Post by kris on Sept 4, 2023 10:21:33 GMT
Perhaps it's a method of making the savings bite for the maximum number of people, raising awareness of the issue. To be frank I'd rather money went into supporting the system rather than bins. Rog I don’t know I think it’s a bit disingenious to encourage all these people to use your attraction then not provide adequate facilities. Especially bins because we all know the rubbish is going to end up all along the canals. I suppose they don’t care, because they’ve got free labour/volunteers to pick it all up. |
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Post by on Sept 4, 2023 10:25:53 GMT
It seems to be about dog bins.
To be fair these are far too small to accommodate anything other than puppies of small breeds.
Imagine trying to dispose of a used labrador in one !
They should have compactor bins.
Or burn them.
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Post by kris on Sept 4, 2023 10:38:45 GMT
It seems to be about dog bins. To be fair these are far too small to accommodate anything other than puppies of small breeds. Imagine trying to dispose of a used labrador in one ! They should have compactor bins. Or burn them. You could tender for the contract to burn it all? |
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Post by kris on Sept 4, 2023 10:40:10 GMT
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Post by kris on Sept 4, 2023 10:41:11 GMT
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Post by kris on Sept 4, 2023 10:44:45 GMT
The boater bins where I am now are over flowing. Because they’ve stopped emptying them every week, this is on top of the removal of some services. Anyway I was there yesterday, two members of the public where trying to put some rubbish in. Let’s gloss over they where putting dog poo in the boaters bins but they where moaning about the state of them. So I pointed out the change in emptying schedules and the removal of other bins. So they went away informed about the situation.
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Post by on Sept 4, 2023 10:52:20 GMT
Maybe the CRT are in emergency problem-creation mode. Quite predictable. Where are the vultures? Are there any ?
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Post by kris on Sept 4, 2023 10:59:03 GMT
Maybe the CRT are in emergency problem-creation mode. Quite predictable. Where are the vultures? Are there any ? They do seem to be creating problems to try and get more money. It will back fire, I think the most likely outcome will be the goverment giving the whole lot to the EA. If that’s a good thing or not , only time will tell. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 4, 2023 10:59:20 GMT
While we're on the subject of dog poo, how about a nice calendar?  |
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Post by on Sept 4, 2023 11:17:05 GMT
Maybe the CRT are in emergency problem-creation mode. Quite predictable. Where are the vultures? Are there any ? They do seem to be creating problems to try and get more money. It will back fire, I think the most likely outcome will be the goverment giving the whole lot to the EA. If that’s a good thing or not , only time will tell. I'm not sure the EA could deal with it. There was talk of the opposite happening. I still think if local authorities managed towpaths including moorings it would work better. Why should the navigation authority have to deal with public waste management and slum housing problems? Surely that is a job for councils. Yes I know they don't want but ultimately it should be the local council who deal with these things. Its logical. If the CRT has to keep spending money on ridiculous problems like the K&A squatter issue it could over time put the canals themselves at risk. At the end of the day canals are basically public parks. Where else do we see public parks managed by a navigation authority? |
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Post by kris on Sept 4, 2023 11:37:15 GMT
I think the chance of councils taking it on are zero. The problem would be with having lots of councils involved. It hasn’t worked well on the railways splitting the maintenance from companies running the trains.
What ever form it takes, I don’t think the next change is far away.
Ps Just for clarity I’m all for prompt removal of boats without licenses, insurance or bsc. Some people seem to be suffering under the delusion just because I support NBTA in their work, that I’m for a free for all. After all entropy will do for any society that try’s to be too orded and rigid. It’s what china is fighting against and why it’s total control state will ultimately fail.
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Post by on Sept 4, 2023 11:42:18 GMT
I don't mean councils taking over management of canals. That is not appropriate but what is appropriate is councils managing public access land use rather than the navigation authority.
The navigation authority should be spending money on maintaining infrastructure needed to keep the canal functioning.
Towpaths are not part of that infrastructure because there are no horses.
Obviously canal banks are part of the canal but a lot of these had been piled so are basically not a problem.
Locks, moveable bridges and culverts ARE a problem and need sorting out.
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Post by fi on Sept 4, 2023 11:50:04 GMT
If towpaths are not connected to the canals, what would you think about the councils fencing off their 'responsibility' from the dangerous canal edge?
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