The new bridge should be open for next summer. A bad winter will obviously
cause some delays to that. They have certainly been very lucky with the
weather so far this year.

Shaun Pudwell.


"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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Shaun Pudwell wrote:
Sheppey was cut off for weeks in 1987 and I believe Warden Bay had no
power for twelve days. Food had to be air lifted in. That's what I'm
concerned about.

I guess that's one of the perils of living on an island. I'd say it kind
of makes things quite exciting - I especially liked the 1987 winter where
I was because we had to cook dinner over the gas fire in the lounge when
the power went off! Luckily it didn't go off for 12 days though.

The nearest town with a shopping centre is Sheerness and that's over nine
miles away along minor B roads. Then we have that awful lifting bridge
( The Kingsferry Bridge ). To add to the pain, there are now miles and
miles of road works associated with the new £100 million fixed span
bridge that is currently under construction.

Surely that's only a temporary problem to alleviate the existing problems
of the lift bridge? When does the new bridge open?

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