Essential maintenance work is to be carried out on Cowes Floating Bridge next week in advance of what is expected to be a busy Cowes Week and summer holidays in general.
During the work, which is scheduled to take place between 18:00 and 23:00 next Thursday (29th July), there will be a replacement passenger launch service between Cowes and East Cowes.
The planned maintenance work is to replace and upgrade parts on a hydraulic ram that operates the prow.
The scheduling of the work is designed to ensure the service is up and running for a busy August and the remainder of the summer.
What are the council trying to hide. Its all gone very quiet on the ” we will sort out the floating bridge fiasco” Mmmmm.
“upgrade parts”. Very telling! in other words, the original design was not up to it.
Quite agree ,Seems like the new council are going to carry on like the last lot all talk and no action.
whos opening the book on long it last
The question should be which is most common FB6 out of service or Power cuts on the Island
Swear this is the only bridge I know of that barely functions as a bridge.
Is there a link between this story and the previous one today about the lack of dentists across our Island? Seemst hat both Floatie and the NHS patients could do with some immediate remedial bridge work! Boom Boom…
My friend has a JCB digger he has been using almost daily for the last 20 years and in that time has replaced 1 hydraulic hose, which he admitted he broke through carelessness, so perhaps the clowns “maintaining” this abortion should contact JCB and find out why their hydraulic rams seem to last forever.