Too many cooks

I CAN but agree wholeheartedly with your contributor Mick Fitzgibbons about the plethora of interest groups now hanging on to the coat-tails of Canal & River Trust (CaRT), writes Ian Gittins.

For many years I have been associated with a charitable organisation that had too many such groups, for not only does such a hotch potch—Mick's good description—water down any decision, but often makes it virtually impossible to achieve.

Own agendas

The waterways now have far too many interest group and waterways partnerships all too often putting their own agendas forward, and they seem to be coming fast and furious, all to my mind doing nothing more than fudging the issues.

After all, we boaters know the important issues, as anyone reading another of your contributors, Allan Richards, can but be aware.  Let's get on with the very important issue of getting the waterways back up to scratch and stop wasting resources and so much man power in creating and then pandering to such interest groups.