The Isle of Wight Council has confirmed that the Cowes Floating Bridge will return to service at 05:00 tomorrow morning (Saturday).
Despite its troubles in recent years, the vessel has passed its annual Maritime and Coastguard Agency inspection. Furthermore, planned maintenance work has been completed on time.
It means that Floating Bridge No.6 will return to its usual timetable, as expected, from 05:00 on 1st April – but this is no April Fools!
Over the past 12 days a number of works have been carried out including replacement of a drive motor and hydraulics pump, replacement of prow cables, the installation of safety walkways in the engine room and cleaning and painting of the vessel, among other things.
So more of our money down the toilet to massage the egoes in the council that cannot see this is a bottomless pit for tax payer money, this vessel will never deliver a competitive or reliable service , 4 yrs and no sign of any improvement… it’s the joke attraction for tourists .
It’s been 6 years and for the last year it’s been running fine.
Sure? On April 1st. Watch this space.
Taking bets on a breakdown within a month, almost a dead-cert.
Don’t you mean a day!
More like hours ..before the mooring lines are out .. staff/tide/another mechanical failure then pointless message from Jordan to self congratulate
Floating Bridge… only place i would like to see it float is out the Solent into deep water and sink… such a huge waste of money… all those millions and millions spent so far ….sad council…
Doing this on 1st of April because this ‘ ferry’ is an actual joke.. the whole world is laughing …
I love the way they call it planned maintenance – imagine if your car had to go in every year for 12 days to be basically rebuilt and have most of its major parts replaced, it would hardly be called ‘maintenance’, it would be called extensive mechanical restoration
It would if it ran for 20 hours a day 365 days a year
All shiny and back in action on Saturday – broken down again on Sunday!
Must say it looks the part in the picture but time will tell
An April Fool’s joke.