Carne griffiths print:

Have you placed your bid in the Big Art Auction yet?

Last Friday evening saw the launch of a 12 month £50,000 fundraising campaign for the Ventnor Skatepark.

The launch of the year long campaign coincided with the launch of the The Big Art Auction – an incredible collection of over 50 works of art donated by artists on and off the Isle of Wight.

Wide range of artwork
Many of the items were on display on Friday night and all day Saturday at Ventnor Exchange, and all can now be found on The Big Art Auction Website, where you have until 30th April to place your bids.

Auction lots include work by Carne Griffiths, My Dog Sighs and the amazing hyper-realist artist, Rachael Berry.

Make sure you check out what’s on offer and place your bids before the deadline at the end of the month.

Well done to all involved for pulling this together and to the artists for their generosity.

Image: © With kind permission of Carne Griffiths

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GJ
16, July 2010 8:46 pm

No surprise there then. Whenever I have travelled on the Rail link bus it has followed or overtaken the No. 3 Bus which seems to connect to the same train services and is four times more frequent.

the Rail link service was a waste of taxpayers money

Zoiner
Reply to  GJ
16, July 2010 9:40 pm

Except that the 3 does not go to the station and rail passengers with luggage will have even less time to make the link.

GJ
Reply to  Zoiner
16, July 2010 10:42 pm

It’s only a few yards from the bus stop to the station and there always seems more than adequate time to catch the train. As a Council Taxpayer I’m not sure why I should pay for the luxury of an additional bus just for a few extra yards. Perhaps the No. 3 could divert into the station, but maybe there isn’t sufficient room for it to turn… Read more »

intentionally blank
Reply to  GJ
16, July 2010 10:55 pm

sounds sensible. Perhaps the bus stop itself could be moved into the station car park? If I remember correctly, its currently a stop on the road, with no layby to pull into? Surely it would be better for SV to provide a link, better to keep traffic flowing, and better for the railway service too. But I expect there would be objection from the taxi drivers or… Read more »

Sailor Sam
Reply to  GJ
16, July 2010 11:49 pm

As it states in the article; the rail link bus fare is signifitantly cheaper than the SV service. When i used to travel between Shanklin and Ventnor, I always used the rail link bus. Of course, If they hadn’t closed the railway in the first place….

Zoiner
Reply to  GJ
17, July 2010 12:12 pm

As a council-tax payer you will probably find yourself paying more for the concessionary fare elements to Vectis though.

The current arrangement has the #3 (to Ryde)hover outside Somerfields /Coop for a while so the suggestion it could hover in the station car park is quite reasonable. It is only a 50yd detour off the route. Similarly the Newport bound #3 could stop there too.

Sailor Sam
Reply to  Zoiner
17, July 2010 12:23 pm

It would be cheaper for me to use the car than use the no. 3 bus!

Zoiner
Reply to  Zoiner
17, July 2010 12:50 pm

True, 70p a mile!

Zoiner
Reply to  Zoiner
17, July 2010 12:56 pm

Two sharing a taxi is about the same price at £1.50 per mile. Three of you and you are in profit!

Andrew Middleton
Reply to  GJ
31, July 2010 4:40 pm

I suggest, GJ that you get a new tape measure. It is more than a few yard from the bus stop to the station and some of it up hill. You have to get off the bus at Somerfield as you can’t rely on the bus getting to the stop nearer to the station as Southern Vectis have categorically stated that their servic 3 is not designed… Read more »

mojo
Reply to  GJ
19, July 2010 10:18 am

When the rail bus was launched, SV altered the timetable for the no 3 so that they ran at the same time.

GJ
Reply to  mojo
19, July 2010 6:15 pm

That wasn’t very sporting. Be interesting to see whether SV change the timetable of the no.3 to make sure that it doesn’t connect with the train, because it is not in their interest for passengers to get off the bus and on the train going to the same destinations, more or less. Hopefully IWC will put some pressure on SV to ensure that they do not disadvantage… Read more »

Gillian Jenner
Reply to  GJ
19, July 2010 8:19 pm

GJ, I see you have had a flutter of recent postings, which have coincided with me joining Ventnor Town Council.

Your alias “GJ” creates some ambiguity as we have the same initials. Maybe the use of a third initial would do the trick?

LC
Reply to  Gillian Jenner
20, July 2010 10:17 am

No problem, Gillian, I’ll change to LC. A further thought re SV changing the timings of the 3 service to coincide with the Rail-link service: 1. They may have gained revenue from passengers travelling to Shanklin station by bus, but 2. They may have lost revenue by passengers who would have travelled onwards getting off the bus at Shanklin station and on to the conveniently timed, quicker… Read more »

Dave
Reply to  mojo
20, July 2010 7:25 pm

“When the rail bus was launched, SV altered the timetable for the no 3 so that they ran at the same time.” Where did you get that from? At the time of the start of the Railink service in 2004, route 3 didn’t even go to Shanklin. It ran Newport – Ventnor and that was it. The Ventnor – Shanklin service was provided by the 7 island… Read more »

David
Reply to  Dave
24, July 2010 11:29 pm

@Dave: When the SV network was re-vamped 5 years ago, the new number 3 (a merge of the former 3 and 7B routes) was arranged so the departure times from both Ventnor and Shanklin (towards the other) were the same as the 16 (to within 2-3 minutes). The old 7/7A7B route used to follow/lead the 16 by a significant gap – from memory about 15-20 minutes. That’s… Read more »

Andrew Middleton
Reply to  David
31, July 2010 5:07 pm

Originally all SVOC buses to Shanklin and Ryde from Ventnor went the same way as the rail bus via Cowleaze. Then SVOC revamped the Route 7 buses as they had by then become so that most ran via Wroxall and a few ran Via Cowleaze. They then removed all the 7’s that ran via cowleaze claiming that it was not economically viable to route a bus that… Read more »

mojo
Reply to  Dave
12, August 2010 10:42 pm

Okay!! However I will rephrase my comment to the fact that ” SV changed the times of the bus service running from Ventnor to Shanklin to coincide with the times of the rail link bus!! I used to watch this (and still do) from my window which overlooks a bus stop which serves this route!! Happy now??

Steephill Jack
26, July 2010 8:48 pm

Can anyone explain why County Councillor Susan Scoccia is organising a petition against the cut to the rail link bus when she could have/maybe should have voted against it when the Council decided on these cuts ? Wight Bus is a Council funded operation and the Council decides the policy. Perhaps there never was a vote ? But she is part of the Conservative Party Council membership… Read more »

intentionally blank
Reply to  Steephill Jack
26, July 2010 10:11 pm

organising a petition makes her look good. she then looks like she tried to save it, but was unfortunately unsuccessful.

Rush
Reply to  intentionally blank
27, July 2010 5:09 am

Votes!

David Spencer
13, September 2010 12:54 pm

I have read everyones comments above and clearly most support and prefer public transport but all are appealing for “service”. Bus services sadly in the UK as a whole are commercially run and operators dont care about service. In the West Midlands the local passenger transport authority also wanted service and converted a railway line into a Parry People Mover tram line. It was all done by… Read more »

John Hyde
24, February 2014 8:26 pm

Reopen the railway from Shanklin to Ventnor, it should never have been closed.

Angry man
Reply to  John Hyde
24, February 2014 8:40 pm

A fantastic idea, but will never happen. Many properties have now extended their gardens onto the railway line, Southern Water own the tunnel at Ventnor and the where would the money it would cost to do come from?

Beeching has much to answer to, not only around the UK, but also in Ventnor!

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