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Why’s the Floating Bridge running slower?, News OnTheWight asked the council, now it’s finally returned after four months servicing and modifications. Here’s what they said
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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Assuming it gets the all clear from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the Cowes Floating Bridge will return to service later this month
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It's hoped with all the current modifications that are taking place to the Cowes Floating Bridge that the future "levels of failure will be greatly reduced"
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Things seem to be moving in the right direction, with the Leader of the council saying "there is a bit of light at the end of this very dark and very long tunnel"
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Contractors will repair the ramp once it is over in Southampton
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The latest fault came as a shock to the Cabinet member, Phil Jordan, who says they are not even sure if it's repairable
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Opposition parties butted heads over the timeline for legal action in relation to the Cowes Floating Bridge last night
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The outcome of the independent Cabinet Office Review will help inform future decisions about the Cowes Floating Bridge
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A new Floating Bridge is a realistic possibility, says Cllr Phil Jordan, while blasting the previous administration’s ‘dithering’ four year track record, labelling their huge spending on it, ‘the most expensive sticking plaster this Island has probably ever seen’
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The Bridge will have been out of action for 11 weeks by the time it is scheduled to return to service in mid-November
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If you can't trust council information from an Isle of Wight council paper, where can you? The information was reported in good faith directly from a council document, but Cllr Jordan says it’s incorrect and estimates are ‘wide of the mark’
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In October, the Isle of Wight Council Cabinet will be asked to consider commissioning an independent Government review of the Floating Bridge. And there's more
