A £50,000 report into the failings of Floating Bridge No.6 has been completed but is to be kept secret – until the Council can balance out the report’s findings with a forward plan of action, which could include a new, electric floating bridge. A 6-month-long investigation into the ‘2 remaining issues’ affecting Floating Bridge 6 ended in December. Carried out by 3S Services, the review cost the Isle of Wight Council £47,520. Although the findings have reached County Hall, they will not be published yet and will instead be combined with future plans for the service. Earlier this year, the Leader of the Isle of Wight Council said he has hopes for a new, electric replacement. In his resolutions for 2024, Councillor Phil Jordan said he wants to be able to announce a new approach to delivering, sustaining and improving the service, ‘which should include a new vessel’. He said he is seeking support from industry professionals and engineering experts, to bring forward outline suggestions for a service that would ‘need to be electrically powered’. Speaking at a meeting on Tuesday, Colin Rowland, the Isle of Wight Council’s community services director, said it makes sense to put together both the report into the existing problems and the one into what might happen next. Floating Bridge 6, which was bought into service in 2017, has been plagued with a number of technical issues which have seen it suspended for weeks at a time.
FLOATING BRIDGE FAILINGS REPORT TO BE KEPT UNDER WRAPS UNTIL NEW PLAN IS READY
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Paid for with public money, everything about this “cover up” stinks. Why do a report if it is to be kept oh so secret?? It should be made public NOW. Jerk Jordan strikes again. Get rid of this loser and the rest of them.
Another Horizon type cover up…. Those responsible must release this report or face the consequences!!!
Lack of legally required transparency seems to be a recurring theme with this project.
Along with the basic engineering failures and lack of accountability, of course.
Totally agree
This conservative admin are following Boris, nothing but lies and cover ups and back street dealings as is usual now of Tory councillors.
Get rid of, soon as possible or quicker
£50,000 for a report ! Talk about throwing good money after bad.
It is not their money so they just don’t care.
I was thinking that!! I know of a few people I know that could look into this..
I think most people that have looked into this, see 50,000 spend by this lot as another robbery by this council.
They have this money for a report about their fault in a public service which they should pay out of their over induldgent wages or pension, yet nothing for adult services to this community
They should be sacked immediately
Another council cover up all the council members should be sacked !!
Oh great, our council have wasted 50k on a report that, no doubt, tells them what everyone on the Island has been aware of for a very long time. They are hopeless!
So hopeless that the ejits behind this mess will almost certainly be re elected next year. We have ourselves to blame.
Agreed in part, so what we going to do about it?
Campaign for answers NOW
Let’s wait for our heavy council tax rise to come through the post soon
Jordan’s qualified to be chief of the post Office now .. suggest forget the report, it’s probably full of what we already know .. so take the £50k out of the IWC Christmas party fund . That makes it even ..
You’re right. We now know that Paula Vennals CBE was part of a Golden Circle who moved from one top job to another in spite of her abject failures and lack of qualifications. Grief, they nearly made her Bishop of London. The same principle applies on the Island where a small group of influential people move from one c*ck up to the next. We deserve better.
If you think this is bad, you just wait until the council eco-zealots get to spend millions of taxpayer cash on an electric one !
Firstly waiting to combine the findings of the report and future strategy is just another way of kicking the matter into the long grass until at least after the general election, secondly jordan is consulting with indistry professionals about a suitable replacement, so yet more money being spent on consultants as they rarely work for nothing, hisbelief that he has the right to spend our money is beyond arrogant.
Could of spent the money on finding ways to build a permanent solution like a Yarmouth style bridge. Could even make it a toll bridge to get the costs back and reduce congestion in the Newport area.
Instead wasting more money and probably looking to spend even more on another chain ferry.
To be fair it’s way too busy of a river to have a bridge like Yarmouth, but the floating bridge has served us well since 1859 its only the latest piece of crap that’s causing us issues and wasting all of our hard earned taxes, we pay enough to get on this floating dump we need a major change in council’s and parliament’s but that’s never going to happen is it, they’re all money grabbing, conniving parasites.
These people are public servants, they work for us and are paid by us. What right do they have to keep things secret from the public who are paying their wages?
Does anyone know if you can get the report through the freedom of information act? They may say it’s being kept secret but might not mean they legally can?
Try it, and if they don’t give you the information take it to Information Commissioners Office. I think they sometimes forget that they serve us.
A new electric floating bridge lmao.Here we go again.Just it scap and don’t waste money on a replacement….
I could have given them a report for £10 ,,,,,,
It’s crap ,,,,, it’s useless and a waste of our Council Tax end of ..
Someone is having a laugh re cost of reporting what us cash cow’s already know……
Just build a ruddy bridge …or drive around, never use it never would so why should I pay for it ????¿??…
And as for secrets?????
Our councillors are total scumbags…
Truth is not in their vocabulary….
Why the secrecy? It’s because there is something in the report that will cause public outrage. The council should be transparent and open especially when it’s our money being misused. They behave like this because they can and because the people of the island allow them to get away with it. The cloak and daggers attitude is more akin to a mafia family, than a public council. This does not bode well for anyone. Any other country wouldn’t put up with it.
I have a plan. Sink it and build a flyover, much cheaper in the long run and
totally reliable.
Can we break down the 50 grand? Also, secrets are NEVER good..
Why keep throwing money at floating bridges just build a. tunnel, it’s permanent and doesn’t breakdown oi require staff and would be paid by tolls no different from current charges but available 24/7
But how much would a tunnel cost? How much disruption would it cause? How many years would it take?
Nice picture of the floating turd with Captain Chaos .. perfect pair .
I have an idea
Set up a Go Fund me page to sink the piece of junk.
I would imagine many Islanders would contribute to the
Fund.
Then get a tug to Tow it into the middle of the solent and
then we can all watch The Royal Navy Sink it with a
Torpedo.
Job done, Asta La Vista Baby!
Consultants were not needed, we know it’s unfit for purpose.a solicitor is required. It’s rather suspect that the boat was not built here in the first place. How much extra did travelling and delivery put on the bill plus all the travelling cost since to repair. The hearsay that I heard was that a relative of a councillor was connected to the Welsh boat builder. Has any connection ever been looked for?