Email: Death defying mooring

Would someone please explain to me why, having just paid £948 (after prompt payment discount) to navigate our canal system, I have just passed 4.2 miles of silky smooth asphalt being laid on the towpath from Selly Oak to Kings Norton Junction on the Birmingham & Worcester Canal?

There is more obviously to be laid judging by the preparations going on from Selly Oak toward Birmingham, laid for the free use of the Lycra clad louts on their bikes who so often make mooring a death defying feat.

Of course, this project has reduced the available moorings along this 4.2 mile length to the few at Bourneville Station (for Cadbury World) as CaRT would probably be slightly miffed if those naughty boaters started bashing their mooring pins through the nice new asphalt.

Has the time not now arrived when all canal users should share the costs. Cyclists certainly should contribute, and in my personal opinion so should dog walkers, whose pets seem to know exactly where to leave their calling cards—right where my mooring rope lands!

Ray & Barbara, Nb Slowly