The official traffic plan for this year’s Isle of Wight Festival has been confirmed ahead of the return of big names such as Muse, Kasabian and Lewis Capaldi to Seaclose Park later this month.
The Isle of Wight Council, Island Roads and Hampshire Constabulary have been working closely with festival organisers to ensure traffic flows smoothly and disruption is kept to a minimum.
The council and partner agencies have approved the traffic management plans submitted by the event organisers, covering areas such as event car parks, separating Red Funnel and Wightlink traffic and measures to ensure close coordination between partners. It is the same as in previous years.
The plan is designed to ensure disruption to local traffic is kept to a minimum, although some delays are inevitable with the increased levels of traffic on the roads.
The main route for festival traffic from the East Cowes Red Funnel terminal will be up York Avenue and along Whippingham Road, where it will turn right onto East Cowes Road and into the festival car park.
Festival-bound vehicles travelling from the Wightlink terminal at Fishbourne will be directed to the right onto Kite Hill, through Wootton, down Lushington Hill and right at the Racecourse roundabout and then left onto East Cowes Road and into the festival car park.
People requiring access to Newport Quay will be required to use the bridge and avoid going through Seaclose Park.
There will be a one-way system in place along Fairlee Road from lunchtime on Wednesday 15th June. All outbound traffic from Newport will be directed up Staplers Road.
If any of the entrances to the car parks are temporarily blocked, or an incident occurs on any of the roads being used by festival traffic, there are a number of diversion options where festival traffic can be temporarily ‘stacked’ away from the main roads and released into the network once the problem has been resolved.
Residents will be kept up to date with routine traffic information, details of road closures and diversions, and updates about those council services affected by the festival. Hampshire Constabulary will provide security and safety updates. Messages will be shared via social media and local media.
Floating Bridge festival timetable
The following timetable will operate over the Festival Weekend from Thursday 16th June 2022 to Sunday 19th June 2022. Any current updates can be found at the Floating Bridge website.
| COWES | |
| Thursday 16th June | |
| First ferry 05:00 | Last ferry 01:25 |
| Friday 17th June | |
| First ferry 05:00 | Last ferry 01:25 |
| Saturday 18th June | |
| First ferry 05:00 | Last ferry 01:25 |
| Sunday 19th June | |
| First ferry 06:30 | Last ferry 00:55 |
| East Cowes | |
| Thursday 16th June | |
| First Ferry 05:10 | Last ferry 01:20 |
| Friday 17th June | |
| First ferry 05:10 | Last ferry 01:20 |
| Saturday 18th June | |
| First ferry 05:10 | Last ferry 01:20 |
| Sunday 19th June | |
| First ferry 06:40 | Last ferry 00:50 |
The council asks that residents plan their routes carefully to avoid the designated festival traffic routes on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday of the event — when traffic volumes will be their highest.
I hope the footpath near the site is not closed again, I always walk my dog there. She always goes in the same spot, otherwise we have it in the garden which kills the grass.
Medina greenway, which goes along the side of the river was closed at 6am Monday the 6th of June, 10 days before the festival starts….. why??
I guess we should be grateful that Wight-fibre have not decided to dig up that stretch of road for the essential to every home cable connection.
Seems an expensive service which, currently is not essential, make one wonder with Gov funding much, if, in the short term future it will be needed by every home for TV as likely they will turn off all transmitters or is it for driverless cars?
Gov doesn’t fund private firms unless they gain, that’s for sure.
Somethings afoot.
Apart from you turning this into a wightfibre mini rant, can you please post a link to where optical broadband can control driver-less cars? Thanks.
The signal necessary to ensure full coverage and safety will need to have servers set up which will need to use optical data supplied via the optical cable.
Could you imagine a copper telephone wire supplying such servers ?
Carnage worse than we have now would ensure.
Watch, and learn the Island will be used as a test bed for driverless cars, once fully opticlaised.
Ah OK. Wightfibre supplied broadband controlling cars. Got it.
Keep smoking whatever it is you are smoking.
I think you need to stop drinking. You’ve no idea how the world works
Perhasps they shoul;d ban access by car.
Festival goers should not have access to Fairlee rd between 6am and 6pm. Wouldn’t need to be 1 way then.
‘It is the same as in previous years.’
So where’s the news then?