What another brilliant idea - not!

[Steve Clayton]

FGS: don't let EA see this!!! they might get ideas

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?411965-Liverpool-Marina-Lock-Charges

 

[Ramage]

That is what the Thames Conservancy used to do.



From the ATYC website:
In 1949, three Thames Cruiser Clubs namely, the British Motor Yacht Club, the Thames Motor Cruising Club (now the Thames Motor Yacht Club) and the Upper Thames Motor Boat Club (now the Upper Thames Motor Yacht Club), joined forces to campaign for the abolition of individual lock charges by the Thames Conservancy. Thus the Association of Thames Motor Boat Clubs (ATMBC) was born under the Chairmanship of J R "Nobby" Pearce. It was later to be renamed the Association of Thames Yacht Clubs (ATYC).

 

[oldgit]

How about.....

.......Reducing the licence fee a tad and installing a credit card machine or Token machine or DartTag type machine at each lock.
You only pay for the number of times you use the lock and if not registered in system and method of paying (also of identifying yourself) No transit through lock ?

 

[boatone]

Think we all need to get used to the idea that little of any consequence will change until the issue of Thames management is resolved - i.e EA or C&RT.

Whilst the idea of a transit charge per lock paid by credit or debit card may have some logistical attractions, providing the facilities river wide will cost a lot of dosh which the EA simply do not have.
Any such scheme would also need to try and ensure that the changeover is revenue neutral and, at the very least, does not result in any reduction in revenue. A large number of boats transiting relatively few locks during the year could have a severe impact on overall revenue unless individual transit fees are set quite high.

 

[Actionmat]

If the EA can't even charge a whopping £9.50 for a DIY pump out without saying the service costs them money to run, I can't see this one happening anytime soon.

 

[boatone]

If the EA can't even charge a whopping £9.50 for a DIY pump out without saying the service costs them money to run, I can't see this one happening anytime soon.

Unit price has little to do with profitability - it's how many pump out charges are paid that determines income. At the TNUF meeting earlier this year we succeeded in persuading the EA that the pump out service should not be treated as an individual profit centre but as an essential service.

Actually, charge is £9 this year, not £9.50 but will rise to £10 on 1st April 2015.