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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 17:13:55 GMT
How do you repair and effect maintenance without sufficient funds? Ideally that shortfall will come from the Government but is this realistic? No significant changes need to be made to the infrastructure just a way of sensibly funding the repairs (rope grooves are a nice to have and should be protected if it is sensible to do so) Whilst I come from a rail background my views just carry the same (or less) than anyone else. My view is that CRT have done some good things regarding getting more people interested in the canals but are also doing things that piss off boaters. Now CRT might think that the IWA are the answer to keeping boaters 'out there' but I disagree and without a variety of boaters the waterways will be a sadder place (but a lot easier to manage). I certainly don't want to see in the future a few 'heritage canals' no longer connected to the main/remaining system - and believe if that is to be avoided then people who care about our canals need to strt waking up to the potential prospect of this happening and accepting some changes to the current situation might not only be necessary but desirable. CRT's total income this year was 200 million. On top of that, they have income from an 850 million pound property portfolio. Just the the 200 million gives them 100 thousand quid per mile. What makes you think they have insufficient funds? Are you able to break down the 850m property portfolio? In another post you suggested that they should be able to achieve 5% returns - I'm not sure if this is a reasonable claim or not. My only experience comes from the BR Residual Board.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 17:22:12 GMT
Most of the bank staff are very good, the few remaining professional lock keepers are very good generally.
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Post by Jim on Oct 29, 2017 17:23:36 GMT
Re towpath upgrade, round here it's more sustrans and the local council cycling ocifer who have made a difference, not Cart.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 17:24:31 GMT
CRT's total income this year was 200 million. On top of that, they have income from an 850 million pound property portfolio. Just the the 200 million gives them 100 thousand quid per mile. What makes you think they have insufficient funds? Are you able to break down the 850m property portfolio? In another post you suggested that they should be able to achieve 5% returns - I'm not sure if this is a reasonable claim or not. My only experience comes from the BR Residual Board. the point is they are not a poor organisation. If they didn't hemerage money like they do there would be enough funds to maintain the waterways much better than at present.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 17:25:04 GMT
CRT's total income this year was 200 million. On top of that, they have income from an 850 million pound property portfolio. Just the the 200 million gives them 100 thousand quid per mile. What makes you think they have insufficient funds? Are you able to break down the 850m property portfolio? In another post you suggested that they should be able to achieve 5% returns - I'm not sure if this is a reasonable claim or not. My only experience comes from the BR Residual Board. 5% is a pretty conservative estimate, and mainly relates to industrial units, warehouses etc. Housing, offices and the like will be a lot higher. Only stuart mills or the accountants could give you a breakdown, because that info is not made public. On top of that, there are several different companies registered to the trust. It's very difficult to make any detailed assessment, but as I have said, 5% overall is very conservative.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 17:26:12 GMT
Are you able to break down the 850m property portfolio? In another post you suggested that they should be able to achieve 5% returns - I'm not sure if this is a reasonable claim or not. My only experience comes from the BR Residual Board. the point is they are not a poor organisation. If they didn't hemerage money like they do there would be enough funds to maintain the waterways much better than at present. 100 thousand per mile is huge.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 17:27:11 GMT
Are you able to break down the 850m property portfolio? In another post you suggested that they should be able to achieve 5% returns - I'm not sure if this is a reasonable claim or not. My only experience comes from the BR Residual Board. 5% is a pretty conservative estimate, and mainly relates to industrial units, warehouses etc. Housing, offices and the like will be a lot higher. Only stuart mills or the accountants could give you a breakdown, because that info is not made public. On top of that, there are several different companies registered to the trust. It's very difficult to make any detailed assessment, but as I have said, 5% overall is very conservative. i agree it's very difficult to clearly discern crt's income and outgoings,,it almost as if the wanted to deliberately muddy the waters.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 17:28:50 GMT
the point is they are not a poor organisation. If they didn't hemerage money like they do there would be enough funds to maintain the waterways much better than at present. 100 thousand per mile is huge. it would be interesting to know what actually gets Spent per mile .Crt hemerage money almost as bad as the canals leak water.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 17:59:31 GMT
100 thousand per mile is huge. it would be interesting to know what actually gets spent for money. Crt hemerage money almost as bad as the canals leak water. Well vegetation works out at 500 quid per mile per year. Grass cutting, tree clearance and lopping. Parry stated in 2015 that he allocated 10 million per year to this.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 18:01:19 GMT
100 thousand per mile is huge. it would be interesting to know what actually gets Spent per mile .Crt hemerage money almost as bad as the canals leak water. As of last year, managers and above were allocated 2.5 million on car allowances. Some getting 10,000 a year each.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 18:06:22 GMT
The hotel bills for managment when they go to meetings out of their area would be something horrendous as well. I know for instance parrry stays in the hilton when In leeds.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 18:11:17 GMT
The hotel bills for managment when they go to meeting out of their area would be something horrendous as well. I know for instance party stays in the hton when In leeds. I did have a go at working out what was realistically being spent on the canals last year, maintenance etc. I made it 11% out of 160 million income.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 18:19:22 GMT
The hotel bills for managment when they go to meeting out of their area would be something horrendous as well. I know for instance party stays in the hton when In leeds. I did have a go at working out what was realistically being spent on the canals last year, maintenance etc. I made it 11% out of 160 million income. id be surprised if it's as much as 11%. It's got to be one of the best gravy trains going for the managment , no wonder none of them want to leave. Time parry introduced some of the measures he has done on the bank staff to the managment. Instead they keep employing more managers without clearly defined roles who get away with doing very little for huge renumerations.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 18:24:30 GMT
There are at least two layers of managment in Crt that are not needed, dead wood left over from the BW days. It's like the last little enclave of nationalised industry.
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Post by Andyberg on Nov 1, 2017 13:36:05 GMT
Well, their free Liverpool Salthouse Dock moorings / trip is excellent and everyone involved in the journey, from the office girls for booking, the lockkeepers & bridge operators through to the helpful Dock staff keeping the place tidy all do a sterling job and deserve a proper thank you.. A real example of a quality service! (And if you're really lucky, you can watch as a local non paying CM scrote has his boat dragged out to sea by roughy toughy knuckle dragging bouncers!😱)
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