Recently, the following improvements to the canal network have been undertaken:

Most of the traffic on the canal network was internal.

That created rain runoff carrying sediment to the canal network.

At one point it was the principal entrance from the Thames to the entire national canal network.

Now Stroud is likely to be reconnected to the national canal network by the turn of the century.

This would have made it possible to settle industries that required a connection to the canal network in the area.

A water bus operates on a canal network within the zoo in peak season, but it stops at only one place.

It would be another three years before officials finally recognised that the canal network had a future besides use for commercial carrying.

A good amount of the original canal network had been filled in and/or lost to re-development.

He has traversed much of the British canal network in his own narrowboat.