Do Scotland's canals represent good value for the public money that is put into them? Two contrasting exercises would initially appear to give opposite answers to this question, especially when it comes to the Lowland Canals. On the one hand they come nowhere near covering their maintenance costs from the money they raise. But on the other hand, their restoration and reopening has generated investment out of all proportion to the money spent on reviving them from dereliction.
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