My friend Allan Richards has through his persistent public questioning of BW proved what most of us locally thought was the case: The business barges BW installed in Paddington Basin are a financial failure. It did not take a genius in property investment to work out that trying to market these barges as workspaces adjacent to one of the biggest office space developments in West London was going to be a challenge, whatever the economic climate.
The signs of course were apparent a year ago.
The answer to Allan's latest FOI request demonstrates that over the last eight years the project has made no return.
Showing posts with label Freight by Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freight by Water. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Spending public money wisely?
I was reminded of some old accusations against BW London about abusing the the funding process by a couple of things this week. Some more recent examples? What do you think?
Games Monitor has been watching the Three Mills Lock project closely and I have to say their and ITV's findings tally closely with mine. We may have our first completed white elephant of the London Olympics.
Games Monitor has been watching the Three Mills Lock project closely and I have to say their and ITV's findings tally closely with mine. We may have our first completed white elephant of the London Olympics.
Saturday, 2 January 2010
Monday, 7 December 2009
Skips by water
One of the things I have yet to say much on here but that I take an active interest in is promoting freight by water. This something we spend a great deal of time on in the London Waterways Commission.
Here is modest example proving that there are still opportunities to move freight by the smaller waterways. Just seen going past Kensal Green - Wood Hall and Heward's tug Wigan pushing a lighter with three skips.
Sunday, 26 July 2009
Priorities
A recent posting by 'Grey Nomad' on Narrowboat World on the latest BW annual report:
Having downloaded the PDF version into a PDF reader, I have done a word search. The results are quite interesting:-
Boats 11 counts,
Dredging 8 counts
Locks 17 counts
Maintenance 35 counts
Property 167 counts
Perhaps that's all you need to know?
BW's latest annual report is available from:
http://www.british-waterways.co.uk/about-us/company-information/annual-report-and-accounts
Having downloaded the PDF version into a PDF reader, I have done a word search. The results are quite interesting:-
Boats 11 counts,
Dredging 8 counts
Locks 17 counts
Maintenance 35 counts
Property 167 counts
Perhaps that's all you need to know?
BW's latest annual report is available from:
http://www.british-waterways.co.uk/about-us/company-information/annual-report-and-accounts
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