The Isle of Wight Council is still unable to provide a timescale as to when the troubled Floating Bridge will return to service.
The local authority has made moves to reassure residents that they are working closely with contractors to bring the chain ferry service back into operation ‘as swiftly as possible’.
Floating Bridge No.6 has been out of action since Thursday after developing a fault.
Engineers have since identified an issue with a drive motor and the Council is now awaiting the results of further investigations to establish the remedial works required and likely timescales.
A launch service remains in operation for foot passengers and cyclists.
The Isle of Wight Council would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Developed a fault?????
It’s been a great big fault since the Council bought the giant lump of junk !!!!!
TOTALLY RIDICULOUS ……
It is a bit. Would be a good time now to convert it to electric, recharging at one or each side, instead of the oil burner, which never should have been chosen in this day and age…
the people who signed it off are back on the council under another banner
The council have the opportunity now to put a final end to this fiasco and remove the abortion permanently, stop wasting our money on it.
I can’t get the headline?
Surely a more worthy headline would be to tell us that the non floater is actually working? After all, it spends more time idle than students on a gap year!
But it gives us all something to laugh at in these uncertain times and seems to do it’s intended job when it is working which is more than can be said for the St George’s way road improvements!
Money wasted on the white horse could have paid someone to clear gutters of weeds. And someone to empty doggy bins .
maybe if this money for repairs comes out of the councilors pockets they will soon send this to scrap heap
Does our council tax go towards these repairs?
Yes
Unless there is some legal barrier i dont understand why, in the fulfillment of open government or open and honesty, they dont just say exactly what the fault is. We are grown up, we are able to make our own judgement on this, it does not need to be obscured.
This carbuncle of a hindrance to the island population is not fit for purpose. When is someone going to look at contracts and find that there is a clause that will get rid of it once and for all?