LAKE DISTRICT BAN ON "WHITE MIDDLE CLASS" TOURS
10 January 2005, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by C h a z II
PeteT,
Give it a couple of years an the place will be a ghost town full of empty hotels[/color]
Give it a couple of years an the place will be a ghost town full of empty hotels[/color]
Imagine yourself on a summers day standing by the side of the road at, say, Bannerigg. On most days there will be a steady stream of traffic, sometimes stationary, queing up to get into Ambleside, Windermere and Bowness. Now think how many of those cars contain people who are going waterskiing, one in a hundred? one in two hundred?
The 10mph limit will affect maybe 6 or 7 businesses who rely for some of their trade on the powerboat fraternity, but they've been given 5 years to diversify. The Low Wood Hotel, one of the main waterskier hotels, between Ambleside and Windermere has just applied for planning permission for yet another extension so I don't think they will be laying off staff in the near future.
Whether you think the 10mph limit right or wrong (and I doubt we'll ever agree
) ,the myth that the Lake District will turn into a ghost town without waterskiers simply doesn't hold water.
10 January 2005, 10:25 PM
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I wasn't meaning the Lake District as a whole, I was thinking more of Bowness. I thought the Low Wood had applied for permission to turn their boat sheds into lodges and been turned down? Don't you think it would have been fair to have left just one lake for the people with engines out of all the lakes in "The Lake District".
For those of you who have never played on a nice boat let me put it another way, would you like to have a blanket 10mph ban on the roads? No of course you wouldn't, that would be stupid.
Perhaps to improve with the safety and noise levels tests should have been brought in. Mabey (shock horror) it might be an idea to introduce a driving test and minimum age to drive a boat, before we just ban them all! What do you think? It's academic now as it is going to happen if we like it or not, I just feel it's a shame that alternatives were just swept under the carpet.
Still I guess if I get myself a boat with a massive V8, Holley carbs 'n' straight pipes, load it up with water so I create a massive wake and then potter round at 10mph making an un-holy noise whilst my mate wake-boards behind me that will be OK, well not against the law anyhow
For those of you who have never played on a nice boat let me put it another way, would you like to have a blanket 10mph ban on the roads? No of course you wouldn't, that would be stupid.
Perhaps to improve with the safety and noise levels tests should have been brought in. Mabey (shock horror) it might be an idea to introduce a driving test and minimum age to drive a boat, before we just ban them all! What do you think? It's academic now as it is going to happen if we like it or not, I just feel it's a shame that alternatives were just swept under the carpet.
Still I guess if I get myself a boat with a massive V8, Holley carbs 'n' straight pipes, load it up with water so I create a massive wake and then potter round at 10mph making an un-holy noise whilst my mate wake-boards behind me that will be OK, well not against the law anyhow
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