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The Isle of Wight councillor for East Cowes shares his response to last night's Corporate Scrutiny meeting where the failures of the floating bridge were discussed
Cowes Floating bridge: All you need to know
The Floating Bridge links Cowes and East Cowes, running regularly through the day and much of the evening. It’s sometimes called the Chain Ferry because it pulls itself both sides of the river on a chain.
Below are articles charting the history of the Cowes Floating Bridge.
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There have been big improvements in the reliability of the Floating Bridge since it passed the five-yearly inspection with the MCA last year
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With the date for legal mediation drawing closer, Cllr Phil Jordan has confirmed that IWC are looking for a settlement of millions from FB6's designers and builders
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After the IW council loftily declared that the new floating bridge shouldn't be called Floaty McFloatface last week in their competition, a petition is rapidly gaining signatures saying it should.
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The Floating Bridge Stakeholders group argue Floating Bridge 6 "would never be fit for purpose", and "should be scrapped and replaced entirely".
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Dave Stewart revealed quite how much FB6 has lost this year to Paul Topping on Isle of Wight Radio this morning. Locals say, “Sell it off. We must have a bridge that won’t waste millions more of our tax money"
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The Floating bridge's newly-fitted mesh matting (fitted only a month ago, costing £3,400), was yesterday removed. Here's what the locals and IWC are saying ...
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The list of spares has been purchased to minimise any future downtime during failures of the Floating Bridge
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The Cowes Floating bridge was out of action for 13 weeks while repairs were carried out. Despite repairs now being finished, Isle of Wight council claim to News OnTheWight they don’t yet know what parts failed in the first place
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15 public interest questions Isle of Wight council have failed to answer about Cowes Floating Bridge
News OnTheWight put 15 questions about the Floating Bridge to the Isle of Wight council. They failed to answer any of them
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Proposals by the council for low paid staff to be expected to work outside 'normal working hours' on flat-rate pay could see a reduction of 25-30% in earnings for many such as floating bridge operatives, care assistants, car park inspectors and home carers who rely on weekend and bank holiday enhancements to achieve any kind of living wage.
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Following a decision of the Full Council in February this year, the Isle of Wight Council will reintroduce the passenger charges for the use of the Cowes floating on Monday 20 July 2015.
