AFTER a cyclist received compensation from a woman walking her dog on a lead on the towpath because it fetched him of his bike, now a cyclist throws a woman down steps for not having her dog on a lead!
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I HAVE noticed over the last two or three years, an increase in the number of narrowboats which are moored not only by the usual method of a rope fore and aft, but in addition with the boat's centre line tightly attached to a ring or mooring pin, writes Ray Fincham.
WITH Christmas looming, surely this is the time to build bridges between the various factions that use the waterways and their towpaths. So what is your suggestion? Here is the starting it off from our contributor Martin Brooks.
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Terry Palmer is clearly right that 360,000,000 human visitors could not possibly visit the waterways each year.
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I can assure Terry Palmer that there are not twice as many visitors to the Manchester canals to make up for nearly none on the tidal part of the Trent.
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I CAN assure your correspondent Gillian Moore that the Canal & River Trust do state that its canals and rivers get 360,000,000 visitors a year, which is clearly shown in its 'propaganda', writes Terry Palmer. [We have received a number of such emails, using this one as an example.]
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WE RECEIVE many emails from boaters giving up their boating and leaving the waterways, but the prominent reason now is the scourge of the speeding cyclists on the towpaths, with June Phipps giving her reason:
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AFTER the success of its many previous cruises, the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society is to hold two cruises again in 2016 to encourage boaters to explore the city's canals.
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ONE of the reasons that I moved onto a boat was to be closer to nature, writes Gareth Haines.
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LYNNE BERRY, Canal & River Trust (CaRT) vice chairman, will be amongst a number of trustees to stand down or retire over the coming months, writes Allan Richards.
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