Numbers

MATHS is not my forte, but if you allow for 2000 miles of canals and an average of 12 hours of daylight every day of the year and divide those figures into 360 million you get 411 visitors for every mile of canal every daylight hour throughout the year, writes David Hymers.

That means you would pass that number in an hour's cruising. This is manifest nonsense; you might see that many on the Regent's Canal towpath in the rush hour, but on any rural canal 40 would be remarkable.

Spout nonsense

Last time I walked into Newbury from home along the Kennet & Avon Canal, about three miles, I passed three people, not 411. If Cart are going to spout nonsense, then at least let's have plausible nonsense.