The Cowes to East Cowes floating bridge is currently stuck in the middle of the water this afternoon (Thursday).
Floating bridge 6 set off from Cowes around 30 minutes ago but has only made it a few metres before coming to a stop a long way short of its East Cowes berth.
There is a full load of vehicles and a large number of children heading home from school at Cowes Enterprise College.
It is unclear when the issue will be fixed of when the boat will reach land.
Traffic is building on both sides of the river as a result.
UPDATE @ 15:35 – The bridge has returned to its Cowes berth and will attempt to cross to East Cowes once more.
UPDATE @15:40 – The vessel has completed a journey to East Cowes, the passengers vehicles have finally disembarked some 45 minutes after they boarded.
The vessel is fully operational once again.
That Floating Bridge goes from bad to worse.
I will no longer use it!
The old one was superb, this ones been a total waste of money.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!! brilliant !!! The piece of crap has broken again…
Here we go again – or don’t go as the case may be.
the stricken passengers vehicles have finally disembarked some 45 minutes after they boarded.
jeez – they make it sound like it was a transatlantic voyage that was hit by tragedy
It won’t be long before our beloved council is sued by the script writers.
Please remind me why people continue to use this joke of a service? Be easier and cheaper to built a bridge
Considering the amount of money these barges cost and their reliability issues we should consider building a bridge over the medina, small gap, reasonably easy contstruction and no more need for these costly boats.
Great idea.
That’s why I never drive to Waitrose, such an Hassle driving round to East Cowes,
a bridge would be much easier for everyone.
They do deliver so no need to go to Waitrose at all.
The floating bridge is so unreliable that the IW Council feel the need to place an illuminated sign in Northwood saying whether or not it is running. Completely unbelievable!
There’s a sign on Lushington Hill in Wootton, too.
It would be more breaking news headline if we heard nothing about this floating junk for a month
An expensive exercise on how to provide the Island with an unreliable, untrustworthy heap of junk that will be a liability until it finally hits the scrapyard.
Get shot of the bloody thing and get All the money paid for it to be refunded
They can’t fo that. They made a secret deal with the builders
On the positive side our council negotiated a satisfactory resolution lol
It just gets better every day . No Christmas miracle happening there then. Its been a complete waste of money. The money they’ve wasted on that heap of junk could have fed the entire island for a year.
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Well the I though for a while , then saw a floater no not a floating floater but a small
Brown floater from nearby sewage treatment plant and it made me realise that the
Transportation link across Cowes resembles that faeces I saw
What a shite show
If everyone stop using it and then someone would have to do something.
When is a piece of Junk NOT a piece of Junk?… When it’s covered by a NDA!
Waste of money sink it
Iceberg on the River medina probably hit it and got stuck
We’ve never used it and won’t ever do so
You couldn’t make it up could you MUCHO LOLAGEO…….
Bloody hell, it hasn’t even got far to travel and it’s pulled across by winches and chains!
What else can go wrong with this thing?
And still this crapshow of a council continue to pour our money into this useless pile of junk, has nobody got the spine to order its removal and replacement designed by a proper marine design firm and built by a reputable builder not a bodgit and legit shower like the last lot.
a new ferry should be built to the exact dimensions of the previous ferries, Southampton university warned the council twice that fb6 would not work as it was too big.
May I contribute the ten pence needed to put in the slot……