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  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,550
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,974
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    usetobunkin said:
    R0TW said:
    That cafe in the overspill at Woolwich done a cracking bacon roll.
    Quite a pleasurable way to cross the Thames.
    That has long gone.
    I know. Just reminiscing. 
    Most stress free way of getting from Blackfen to Canning Town.
    Sit in the motor, bacon roll, cup of tea and the daily paper.
    May have taken longer, but a far pleasurable route.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,550
    clive said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
    Until August this year and ulez covers all the way out to Bromley etc.

    Give it another couple of years and ulez will cover everywhere but the Isles of Scilly. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    TellyTubby said:
    clive said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
    Until August this year and ulez covers all the way out to Bromley etc.

    Give it another couple of years and ulez will cover everywhere but the Isles of Scilly. 
    Thats one hell of a detour!
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    edited February 2023
    TellyTubby said:
    clive said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
    Until August this year and ulez covers all the way out to Bromley etc.

    Give it another couple of years and ulez will cover everywhere but the Isles of Scilly. 

    Only if the Mayor gets his way (which he probably will). There's been loads of push back though and not only from the public, but borough councils that are getting eaten up by the new zone and who are refusing to let the infrastructure for the expansion be placed on their land.

    The only people hit hard by all this are everyday working people, who can neither afford a car upgrade nor the £12.50(?) a day fee to go into the new zone to work / school / hospital / etc. Pretty sure some of the councils who aren't happy are claiming the air quality in their boroughs fall well within the limits of what is acceptable.

    Hard to say too much though as this will be another topic that, if you disagree with, you’re obviously the opposite extreme. In this case, a climate change denying flat earther.

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    Gribbo said:
    TellyTubby said:
    clive said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
    Until August this year and ulez covers all the way out to Bromley etc.

    Give it another couple of years and ulez will cover everywhere but the Isles of Scilly. 

    Only if the Mayor gets his way (which he probably will). There's been loads of push back though and not only from the public, but borough councils that are getting eaten up by the new zone and who are refusing to let the infrastructure for the expansion be placed on their land.

    The only people hit hard by all this are everyday working people, who can neither afford a car upgrade nor the £12.50(?) a day fee to go into the new zone to work / school / hospital / etc. Pretty sure some of the councils who aren't happy are claiming the air quality in their boroughs fall well within the limits of what is acceptable.

    Hard to say too much though as this will be another topic that, if you disagree with, you’re obviously the opposite extreme. In this case, a climate change denying flat earther.

    Even if the councils push back, TFL ‘own’ a lot of the major roads through those boroughs and can install them whatever. 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,715
    Hal1x said:
    TellyTubby said:
    clive said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
    Until August this year and ulez covers all the way out to Bromley etc.

    Give it another couple of years and ulez will cover everywhere but the Isles of Scilly. 
    Thats one hell of a detour!
    the ferry cant even cross the fucking Thames never mind going all the way along the south coast of England. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    MrOneLung said:
    Gribbo said:
    TellyTubby said:
    clive said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
    Until August this year and ulez covers all the way out to Bromley etc.

    Give it another couple of years and ulez will cover everywhere but the Isles of Scilly. 

    Only if the Mayor gets his way (which he probably will). There's been loads of push back though and not only from the public, but borough councils that are getting eaten up by the new zone and who are refusing to let the infrastructure for the expansion be placed on their land.

    The only people hit hard by all this are everyday working people, who can neither afford a car upgrade nor the £12.50(?) a day fee to go into the new zone to work / school / hospital / etc. Pretty sure some of the councils who aren't happy are claiming the air quality in their boroughs fall well within the limits of what is acceptable.

    Hard to say too much though as this will be another topic that, if you disagree with, you’re obviously the opposite extreme. In this case, a climate change denying flat earther.

    Even if the councils push back, TFL ‘own’ a lot of the major roads through those boroughs and can install them whatever. 
    Yeah I heard that, but the fact the councils are pushing back in the first place kind of tells us somethings not right.


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  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,232
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Hal1x said:
    TellyTubby said:
    clive said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
    Until August this year and ulez covers all the way out to Bromley etc.

    Give it another couple of years and ulez will cover everywhere but the Isles of Scilly. 
    Thats one hell of a detour!
    the ferry cant even cross the fucking Thames never mind going all the way along the south coast of England. 
    They've both gone somewhere.

    Chatham has been mentioned for modifications/repairs to be undertken.
  • StAlf198
    StAlf198 Posts: 20
    I was chatting to people at work about going to uni and Freshers weeks etc as some of our kids were off to uni. One bloke at work who went to Greenwich uni glumly said that they weren't allowed a Freshers week as the previous year some students got out of hand and hijacked the Woolwich ferry,tied up the captain and drove the ferry up and down the Thames. I'm not sure how true that is but that does sound like a good Freshers night event!
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    StAlf198 said:
    I was chatting to people at work about going to uni and Freshers weeks etc as some of our kids were off to uni. One bloke at work who went to Greenwich uni glumly said that they weren't allowed a Freshers week as the previous year some students got out of hand and hijacked the Woolwich ferry,tied up the captain and drove the ferry up and down the Thames. I'm not sure how true that is but that does sound like a good Freshers night event!
    Great story but unlikely 
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    StAlf198 said:
    I was chatting to people at work about going to uni and Freshers weeks etc as some of our kids were off to uni. One bloke at work who went to Greenwich uni glumly said that they weren't allowed a Freshers week as the previous year some students got out of hand and hijacked the Woolwich ferry,tied up the captain and drove the ferry up and down the Thames. I'm not sure how true that is but that does sound like a good Freshers night event!
    Sounds like BS to me however if true maybe we could arrange a freshers six months and get them to sail back and forth whilst carrying a few passengers 
  • Penfolds Perm
    Penfolds Perm Posts: 550
    Both in at Chatham Dock for repairs/modifications. 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,679
    Appropriately named Dame Vera Lynn - We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454
    Transport for London have announced that the Woolwich ferry is to close for up to six weeks from the 24th July.
    https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2023/06/16/woolwich-ferry-to-close-for-up-to-six-weeks/
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,479
    TellyTubby said:
    clive said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    TellyTubby said:
    From memory, it wasn't just £20m for the crap boats, but new berths had to be constructed and new ramps fitted as they are larger than the 3 boats they replaced.

    I've tried to get on the new boats twice, but both times there was a fault and I couldn't do it.

    I'm hoping third time lucky next month. I bloody hope so, or I'll be forced into the ulez zone with a no compliant van through the Blackwall Tunnel.
    Isn’t the Woolwich ferry in the ULEZ zone?
    No, it is on the border, turn right [westbound] off the ferry ,Woolwich side, you are in the ULEZ zone, straight ahead or turn left [eastbound] you avoid the ULEZ zone.
    Until August this year and ulez covers all the way out to Bromley etc.

    Give it another couple of years and ulez will cover everywhere but the Isles of Scilly. 
    How silly is that.🙄
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    Got to be working to close it .
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,625
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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454

    Well then. Years after new ferries were introduced Transport for  London have finally announced the pretty awful  Woolwich ferry service is to improve.

    Services will see two ferries in operation from 5am to 9pm seven days a week.

    https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2024/05/07/woolwich-ferry-service-improvements-on-the-way-as-tfl-announce-changes/
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    About bloody time. 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    One Woolwich ferry,
    There’s only one Woolwich ferry….
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Hopping the wag. Who remembers doing that? The Ferry was my go to place, nice and warm and you could see the engines in my day.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,184
    man_at_milletts said:
    Hopping the wag. Who remembers doing that? The Ferry was my go to place, nice and warm and you could see the engines in my day.
    That will be me, went to Woolwich Polytechnic so was handily placed too bunk off to the ferry. 

  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454

    The Woolwich Ferry now runs until 10pm each night after Transport for London changed its hours of service.

    Boats will now run every 15 minutes between 6am and 10pm seven days a week, with sailings before 6am scrapped because of low demand. It had previously run from 5am to 9pm.

    https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2024/07/24/woolwich-ferry-running-until-10pm/

  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,716
    edited July 2024
    usetobunkin said:
    man_at_milletts said:
    Hopping the wag. Who remembers doing that? The Ferry was my go to place, nice and warm and you could see the engines in my day.
    That will be me, went to Woolwich Polytechnic so was handily placed too bunk off to the ferry. 

    @usetobunkin   Me too!  - Poly Boy Macbean Street and then Sandy Hill. Went to Victoria Gardens/Park North Woolwich one lunch time - 3 of us, and done over well and truly by a massive amount of naughty North Woolwich urchins :)
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,184
    charlton4ever said:
    usetobunkin said:
    man_at_milletts said:
    Hopping the wag. Who remembers doing that? The Ferry was my go to place, nice and warm and you could see the engines in my day.
    That will be me, went to Woolwich Polytechnic so was handily placed too bunk off to the ferry. 

    @usetobunkin   Me too!  - Poly Boy Macbean Street and then Sandy Hill. Went to Victoria Gardens/Park North Woolwich one lunch time - 3 of us, and done over well and truly by a massive amount of naughty North Woolwich urchins :)
    I was only at MacBean St 68-73 vintage. 
    So many people I have to apologise to for my ignorance and lack of understanding as a troubled and troubling young man
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,716
    usetobunkin said:
    charlton4ever said:
    usetobunkin said:
    man_at_milletts said:
    Hopping the wag. Who remembers doing that? The Ferry was my go to place, nice and warm and you could see the engines in my day.
    That will be me, went to Woolwich Polytechnic so was handily placed too bunk off to the ferry. 

    @usetobunkin   Me too!  - Poly Boy Macbean Street and then Sandy Hill. Went to Victoria Gardens/Park North Woolwich one lunch time - 3 of us, and done over well and truly by a massive amount of naughty North Woolwich urchins :)
    I was only at MacBean St 68-73 vintage. 
    So many people I have to apologise to for my ignorance and lack of understanding as a troubled and troubling young man
    I left 73 to go to new Upper
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454
    https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2024/10/31/emergency-works-halt-woolwich-ferry-services/

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