The Japan Times
On a misty winter's day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multimillion-pound rescue operation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/11/world/uk-canals-crumbling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #uk #transport #canals
U.K.'s crumbling canals threatened with collapse

The sight starkly illustrated an ongoing battle to maintain the U.K.'s historic, yet deteriorating, waterways.

The Japan Times
Feb 11 at 8:10pmBuffer
Show threadRichRARobiFeb 11

@thejapantimes

The whole country is failing due to lack of maintenance. The #ukgovernment for at least the last rwenty-five years has concentrated on pretentious vanity schemes that make bosses rich and the people poor, and the country as a whole cannot afford them.

#ukpolitics is broken
#westminster is #corrupt

Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceFeb 11
@thejapantimes this makes me sad. Canals can be a really valuable solution to so much of climate change.