Cars and Canals

     With so many canals and so few parking areas for cars, parking becomes a challenge.   Where to park?  How to park?  On many canals there are short guard rails that keep automobiles from rolling into the canal.  On other canals there are no guard rails (yet) so drivers do not park heading into the spot, but rather park parallel to the canal.  We were told that if your car goes into the canal and you were in it insurance would cover it.  If you were not in it then insurance would not pay.  The insurance companies started putting up the guard rails in some areas to cut their losses.   We never saw any cars roll off the street into the canal but we suspect it may happen, especially in bad weather.  

Canal-side parking without a guard rail.

Canal-side parking with a low guardrail--just enough to keep the car from rolling into the canal.