At the beginning of July it was broken when we travelled to and from Saltaire. On the way to Saltaire we arrived at the back of the queue just as it was fixed, but there were about 5 boats waiting. On the way back it was again broken, but we had just come up the Five Rise late in the late afternoon and so were happy to moor for the night, however they did fix it early in the evening and let the waiting boats through. Or at least we thought they'd fixed it, but the next morning it wouldn't work again and we didn't get through it until nearly lunchtime, again accumulating a queue of boats in both directions
As I understand it, as part of the development of 400+ houses north of the canal they will build a fixed bridge so C&RT are trying not to spend any money on it even though it's really EOL.