The pedal power ranger

摘要

It's a damp autumn morning at London's City Road Lock, and a chap cycles up on a Brompton folding bike, with a Canal & River Trust peaked cap under his cycling helmet. "The cap keeps the rain off," explains Dick Vincent, CRT's National Towpath Ranger, as he dismounts and we order a couple of coffees from the canalside cafe. He suggested this spot on the Regent's Canal just west of Islington Tunnel to meet up and talk about towpaths, because "it's the epicentre of what I do". Not the centre of the canal system by a long way, or even of London's waterways, but of the towpath related issues that his job involves. And it's a job which began in London, but has now 'gone national'.