Manchester's Serial Killer

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Anyone watching? Why don't they install better CCTV along the canal?

I agree with the conclusions on the link and pretty much summed up what I said above.

I am off to be an economist.

Joking aside canals are very deceptive so sometimes surprised there are not more deaths. They widen then narrow without warning, at the bridges the banks merge and can be very slippy and very narrow. There are no lights at all.

I went for an interview at the end of last year and walked the 3 miles along the canal as my only other route was a busy dual carriageway. What I had not factored in was that by 4pm the darkness was in. Luckily not pitch black but the easy 45 minute walk I had on the way turned into a 1 hour 20 minute walk which was a lot more difficult. As I said I could not see the shape of the paths quite so easily and sections where I was in the tunnel was extremely dark and then I knew there might be slight uphill bank to reach the towpath and it sounds silly but knowing one slip on the mud could leave me in the water made me nervous whereas when it was light I would just jumped up as indeed I jumped down in the daylight.

The canal walk is a lovely route in the clear light of day but walk one for 6 or 7 miles and closely look at how the path changes and the path is not a straight line and how it narrows and how it may be slippy to climb down to the bridge to walk underneath. I guarantee in the darkness the walk will not be so easy.