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Check out photos and aerial video footage of the new Floating Bridge arriving on the Isle of Wight. Floaty McFloatface is here!
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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The BBC's Daily Politics TV show, the 'must watch' for everyone involved in national politics, did a segment on the Island's dear-old Floaty McFloatface discussion today, which they asked OnTheWight to contribute to.
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The Isle of Wight council had said they would veto nominations for Floaty McFloatface in the new floating bridge naming competition. A petition calling for a u-turn gained over 1,600 signatures in just a few hours, so they have.
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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 new floating bridge is due on the Island on 3rd April and could be in service as early as the 18th April, Cllr Ward told members at last week' full council meeting.
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The floating bridge left the Isle of Wight at the weekend (great photo CB!), but has she been scrapped or sold? And if so, for how much. Bizarrely the council won't say.
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Originally scheduled to be in service by late March, the Isle of Wight council now say the Cowes floating bridge won't be in service until early May.
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With the cost for pedestrians set to rise by 50% on the Cowes Floating Bridge - which makes a profit each year - East Cowes councillor, Luisa Hillard, says it's unfair that families should be financially penalised through no fault of their own.
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A 4.99% rise in council tax, cuts to Personal Budgets for those with learning disabilities, youth provision budget slashed in half and reduced opening hours at the recycling centres are just some of the proposals in the Conservative-Alliance budget being debated later this month. Here's the detail.
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If you're missing the Cowes Floating Bridge already, check out this great collection of videos, which includes a time lapse of bridge being dismantled and taken away this morning, dash-cam crossings both ways during the day and the very last crossing in the dark of night.
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Check the floating bridge timetable for over the Christmas and New Year holidays and don't forget vehicle crossings finish for nearly three months on 2nd January.
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Many people were surprised the floating bridge would be out of action for vehicles for nearly three months, so OnTheWight sought to find out the extent of the work taking place to prepare for the new floating bridge.
