The Cowes Floating Bridge will run on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and its hours will be extended on New Year’s Eve.
On Christmas Eve, the service will run from 05:15 until 00:30, before resuming on Christmas Day morning from 07:00. It will stop for 2 hours due to tides between 16:25 and 18:25.
On Boxing Day, the vessel will run from 07:00 to 00:30 on 27th December.
The regular timetable will continue until New Year’s Eve, when the service will run from 05:00 to the later time of 01:30 on New Year’s Day morning. It will resume at 06:30 on New Year’s Day.
Councillor Ian Ward, Cabinet member responsible for the vessel, has said:
“Residents will be able to use the floating bridge during the Christmas period so they can enjoy shopping, celebrating and travelling to family and friends.
“Importantly, there will be extended hours into New Year’s Day because we recognise that people will need to get home safely and not have to rely on taxis.
“In addition, I’m particularly pleased with November’s availability figures because they show, without doubt, the floating bridge is doing the job it was built for the vast majority of the time.
Article continues below this advertisement “There are still issues and Wight Shipyard continues to work on solutions to allow the vessel to operate in all tides, but the service continues to improve”.
