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Yar-Lym car ferry dropping to one-boat service for much of the day and weekends, Wightlink confirms

Simon Perry·

As revealed by News OnTheWight at the start of June, Wightlink will be dropping their current two boat service to one-boat on the Yarmouth-Lymington route for the majority of the day and throughout weekends.

Weekday mornings (between 08:00 and 12:00 from Lymington) there will be a two-boat service.

The Fishbourne – Portsmouth car ferry will be a two-boat service. And the FastCat from Ryde Pier Head to Portsmouth will remain hourly. 

Image: davidcjones under CC BY 2.0

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Nitonia
9, July 2014 10:51 am

I’d like to hear more about Christ the King’s entrance conditions. Why will everyone from the West Wight be denied places?

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Caconym
Reply to  Nitonia
9, July 2014 12:14 pm

I think you are confused by the wording of the article. Kids from the West Wight are no more likely to be denied a place At CtK than from anywhere else. What the article is saying is that parents who WANT their children to go to Carisbrooke will have to put CtK as their first choice (and Carisbrooke as their second) and hope to be turned down… Read more »

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Mark Francis
Reply to  Nitonia
10, July 2014 9:51 am

You have to pretend to be a God Botherer – or, given the archaic title of the school, a Fifth Monarchist.
Besides which there appears to be perfectly good cycle path along the river.

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Caconym
Reply to  Mark Francis
10, July 2014 12:27 pm

Actually you have to do the complete opposite. If you live in the West Wight and want your child to attend Carisbrooke or Medina AND benefit from free bus travel then you HAVE to put CtK as your first choice, but make damn certain they reject your application. Rather than claiming to be a “God Botherer”, you need to claim you are an die-hard atheist who thinks… Read more »

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Colin
9, July 2014 1:01 pm

Right, let’s see.

The Council decides to reorganise the school system so that middle school children are no longer educated locally but are required to travel longer distances to senior schools.

A couple of years later, the council doesn’t like the cost of financing their own reorganisation so try to pass the cost on to the parents.

And they wonder why criticism comes their way.

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Caconym
Reply to  Colin
9, July 2014 1:46 pm

To be fair, it was the previous administration who were responsible for the school reorganisation fiasco.

Doesn’t make these proposals for free (or, rather, the lack of free) school transport any less of a mess, though!!

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phil jordan
Reply to  Caconym
9, July 2014 6:10 pm

suruk the slayer: I wonder why the previous administration did not sort out the school transport issue when they decided to make wholesale changes to the school system on our Island….? Would it not have been part of the process of re-organisation to actually do that…? Cllr Whitehouse would do well to express criticism of the kafkaesque and completely bizarre actions of his conservative colleagues previous management……… Read more »

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Chris Newman
Reply to  phil jordan
10, July 2014 2:40 am

But the Conservatives did sort out the buses to suit the new School 2Tier system, its the Indies that have caused the problem by removing the bus solution.

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Cynic
Reply to  Chris Newman
10, July 2014 8:17 am

Mmmm! Mussolini’s claim to fame was that he “sorted out the trains!” :-)

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phil jordan
Reply to  Colin
9, July 2014 6:17 pm

Colin:

I’m afraid the previous administration implemented the (failed?) re-organisation of schools on this Island.

In addition, to accompany that (now documented) failed initiative, they omitted to include implementation of a schools transport Policy to match the accompanying re-organisation.

Yet one more issue left over from the last administration to sort out….

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Colin
Reply to  phil jordan
10, July 2014 9:12 am

@ phil I am well aware of which administration did what. I remember the headlines of the announcement of the £28 million contract with SV made with misplaced pride and wondered why it was such a wonderful idea to spend £4 million a year transporting the pupils to schools miles from their homes whilst closing schools on their doorsteps. And now we have the free school opening… Read more »

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RJC
9, July 2014 3:17 pm

Simple solution. Move the bus stops.

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Cynic
Reply to  RJC
9, July 2014 3:30 pm

,,,,and/or the bus route?

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Cynic
Reply to  Cynic
9, July 2014 3:34 pm

e.g. Yarmouth Rd/Forest Rd/Gunville Rd/Taylor Rd?

or

Middle Rd/Gunville Rd/Taylot Rd?

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Chris Newman
10, July 2014 2:30 am

This is exactly the point that I made in my entry on the objections petition. It also effects Medina College as they will lose ALL West Wight students to Carisbrooke & Christ the King. They will also lose all South Wight to the new Free School, and Sandown Academy, and all the West Cowes Students. Medina has Students starting in September 2014 from 39 Isle of Wight… Read more »

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Chris Newman
10, July 2014 2:36 am

Sorry, I meant my comment to be a reply to Chris Whitehouse’s Post. :)

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Mark Francis
10, July 2014 9:58 am

Actually it is probably not Kafkaesque as such – since that would imply an existential questioning of our identity & the meaning of our role within the world and a corruptible society rather than which bus to take.

Either that or waking up as an insect.

This term might however be alluding to the entrance requirements to “faith” schools.

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