Peter's Waterways Blog A Locking Challenge This is part of an article first published in IWA West Riding's Milepost in January 2019, about being a Navigation Authority and the policy for what can be attached to a bridge.

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Here is a difficulty for Navigation Authorities: you are in charge of a pedestrian bridge over a waterway (not Canal and River Trust in these examples) and there are wires that form part of its parapet. A couple click a padlock on to one of the wires and ceremonially throw the key into the waterway. What is your policy? Then some of their friends do the same ...