The disastrous Cowes Floating Bridge is due to return to service tomorrow morning (Friday), the Isle of Wight Council has confirmed.
Floating Bridge No.6 was once again pulled from service last Friday as a result of yet another hydraulic issue.
It’s taken all week for contractors to repair the problem but it’s been confined by the local authority that the works to the hydraulic ram have now been completed
The Floating Bridge is due to return to service at 05:00 on Friday 4th December 2020 – but as always the question ‘how long for?’ lingers.
Just leave it out of service save us tax payers some money
Which Friday is it coming back?
Will it be in service for long?
The money wasted on this could have spent in building FB No.7.
Place your bets now for 1. If it will come back and friday and 2. How long it will last.
Won’t last till Tuesday what’s the odds please ha ha
Here we go again….. I think Island Echo could just have this article on repeat to save them the time typing it! Well they would be able to publish it very frequently… Seriously though, when will this council admit their mistake and acknowledge FB6 is not fit for purpose. I’ve said this before, in my opinion there should never have been FB6, FB5 should have been replaced with a permanent bridge over the Medina. This would have been a much wiser use of taxpayers money , alleviate congestion in Newport and roads both sides of the Medina.Personally, I wouldn’t be giving the council the idea of a FB7, just in case they go on to waste yet even more public money on it!
Whilst I agree with your opinion, can you imagine the cock-up they would make designing a Bridge??? It would probably end up circling back to the same side it started on… with the road surface underneath the thing!! They are incompetent and relentless in their support of this pig,,, almost as if they worry that someone is to blame?
How short a time will it last this time? Answers on a postcard please!!!!! 1 week maybe 2. Complete money pit. Our Council Tax will increase next year to recouperate all that has been wasted on this floating disaster in 2020.
I would say answers on the back of a postage stamp more likely
I will give it till a week before xmas school holidays, build a bridge
Bare in mind that a bridge would not be free to use either; for they would impose tolls. For the purpose of this council has always been to raise money from the local people using it.
The initial charge of 30p for pedestrians was just to gain acceptance by users, they announced that it was already making a profit back then -Then they got greedy..
So now I don’t walk across to shop anymore, it’s too expensive, so I drive round via Newport.
They don’t care about pollution either, as they would not have chosen a conventional oil burner propulsion system, instead of a battery or electric flywheel, which recharges at each side of the river.
– Breathe in those diesel particulates courtesy of the IoW council !!
You are almost certainly paying more in fuel driving both ways than paying the £1.50 return fee. Unless your car does greater than around 80 mpg
However I will visit the Newport stores en-route anyway, sometimes realising that I don’t need to complete the second half of my trip after all..
Pity the shops in Cowes and E.Cowes – no support for them from the IWC..
I think you mean ‘bear in mind’ !
And if you really are concered about pollution, why do you ‘drive round via Newport’? Your car produces plenty of noxious fumes on that journey, one that’s simply not necessary just for ‘shopping’.
Thank you for the spelling correction.
However my journey is necessary for essential supplies and it was the IWC’s decision to impose increasing charges, that means I now have to reluctantly fire up my infernal combustion engine (no spelling error there).
Look on the bright side you can have free parking this month.
Thanks for your response, Stephen63. That seems like a fair comment.
Pull The Other One It’s Got Bells On It !