THIS was the sight that greeted the thousands of visitors to Liverpool's waterfront over the weekend.
As recordcrowds converged on the Pier Head for the four-dayMathew Street festival, the wreckage of the Mersey ferry landing stage lay strewn across the city's celebrated dockside, five months after its dramatic sinking.
The semi-submerged structure was shattered in March after freak tides, but the clean-up operation to remove the debris has hit severe delays, provoking anger from council-lors and complaints from tourists.
The rusting gangway still slopes down from the harbour wall into the water, displaying the sign: "Ticket Holders Only Beyond This Point".
Today, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company told the ECHO they expected work to begin in mid-September, despite previouslygiving assurances that the job would be completed by the end of August.
Today, Labour leader Cllr Joe Anderson, said he was contacting Liverpool council's chief executive to put pressure on MDHC to act.
He said: "It is not acceptable. We have had huge crowds visiting Liverpool forthe Mathew Street festival and they see this mess.
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