There is one thing that can be told about Canal & River Trust.
That it certainly isn't very quick at completing jobs, as Keith Gudgin points out.
It was way back on the 23rd April that it reported the Rochdale Canal was under restriction owing to an obstruction at the bottom of Pinfold Lock 70. Yet six months later the restriction is still in force with the obstruction still not removed.
Grand Union Canal
It was again back in April, this time the 10th, when the Elsan disposal at the Customer Service Facility at Cowley Lock was 'currently out of action'.
Customers not being told why it was out of action. All we were told today, the 10th of October—six moths later was that 'Customer Service Facility Completed'.
What on earth that might mean we are not told either. For nothing had been done.