Cart has gone quackers!
With its waterways at near breaking point through lack of money spent on now critical maintenance, the Trust has decided to spend it on yet another hare-brained scheme—daft notices telling there are ducks at play!
What is the point?
Here it is—Caution: Ducks at Play. What on earth is the point? Who are the notices aimed at? Why caution? Ducks at play? How totally insane. But it seems to fit in with Cart's ever continuing spending the money, that it claims it is so short of, on such ridiculous things.
We have gleaned that the notices like others before it will be rolled-out across its waterways at a cost of many thousands of pounds. The actual cost first of the Poet Laureate, (yes there is) then the design department, then surveying where the notices will be installed, then the actually installation and finally the inspection, the Trust have refused to admit.
Others
Since Cart took over from British Waterways and now considers itself a charity there have been many such schemes, from carving silly meaningless slogans on lock beams to the last recent one, pictured, of welcoming everyone to here, there and everywhere.
Whatever next? Must be the question of many of you readers, especially boaters, who provide most of the cash that the Trust so recklessly fritters away on such pointless schemes.
Here we have a situation that the Trust admitted last December (but nothing since...) that its waterways had 59,133 defects and its maintenance was £117 millions in arrears, yet it spends money telling us that ducks are at play!
Tom Crossley