Adrian wrote:

We've diy-d a website, with an online e-petition (chance for you to
'diy' something!) which is part of a campaign to focus attention on the
problems caused by the loss of the ferry and bring pressure to bear on
those people who can do something about it to get the service reinstated.

Apologies for the bandwidth - but if you'd care to drop along to

www.bringbacktheswanseacorkferry.com

and add your support to our e-petition then we'd be most grateful !

I'll quite happily support it but I don't think there's a lot of hope.
Ferries are generally an endangered species. Many of the 'neatest'
routes for us (in East Anglia) to mainland Europe have gone. There's
no longer a Felixstowe-Zeebrugge ferry, the Harwich-Hook of Holland
route has been effectively downgraded by the loss of the high speed
ferry. There also used to be a ro-ro service to Poland, that went
quite a while ago.

I think Speedferries has invigorated the short cross channel routes
but any routes that take more than an hour or two are dying out.

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Chris Green