Tube strikes anyone affected?

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Tube strikes today London transport is in chaos (see below), I'm lucky I motorbike in so bus lanes and 'filtering' means it won't delay me however they are talking about £48m cost to the economy every day

Any one else fed up or part of the mess

Picture below is from LBC website travel about ten minutes ago

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took some people at work about 2 1/2 hours to get in. My self i just have a single bus journey but it took double the time. Traffic was horrendous. Used the time wisely and worked off my hangover.
 
My girlfriend started her new job today (closest tube is Chancery Lane) - Christ knows what time she got in in the end. It's completely insane. With all the tubes playing silly buggers, it's also meant that the roads are far more busy for everyone else.
 
Had to postpone a meeting that required me to journey into one side of London, take the tube to the other side and journey out again. The journey takes 2 hours on a normal day, but today would have taken forever or not happened at all.

I remember in 2007 or 2008 there was a big tube strike and at the time I was working in High Holborn. I travelling into Paddington and had to walk from Paddington to Holborn every morning for a week - an hours walk at the best of times.

Bob Crow and his peons can sod right off in my book.
 
I'm quite encouraged by the news of driverless trains being introduced, LBC were saying in the last 7 years the Union and Bob Crow had 57 votes for strike action, absurd :(
 
maccapacca said:
I'm quite encouraged by the news of driverless trains being introduced, LBC were saying in the last 7 years the Union and Bob Crow had 57 votes for strike action, absurd :(
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Make it all like the DLR and close all ticket offices and replace with machines. Only need barrier staff then and a trained monkey could do that job.

I wonder if - like Arthur Scargill - Bob Crows' house gets bigger with every strike...
 
Well I come in at euston and work at the angel so I just had to walk up pentonville instead of cruising up in a 73 or 476...

Still, I can see why they are striking, but alas it does nothing to bolster support from the great unwashed, especially those that are having a mare of a day because of it.
 
Swampyseifer said:
Well I come in at euston and work at the angel so I just had to walk up pentonville instead of cruising up in a 73 or 476...

Still, I can see why they are striking, but alas it does nothing to bolster support from the great unwashed, especially those that are having a mare of a day because of it.
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They still should not have the ability to cripple London, it's as simple as that
How many years has this been going on now? and yet still TFL has no contingency plan

I can't wait for the lot of them to be sacked because the whole system has been automated out of necessity
 
I normally get the train to Paddington and get the tube from there. Despite the tube being fine last night there was absolutely no underground from Paddington whatsoever today. There was one poor guy in a yellow jacket with a map in Paddington with half the station asking him how they could get to work. I wouldn't want to be him today! When it got to my turn the suggested route to my destination underground station was to walk the whole lot (would have took an hour to do that according to Google maps and that's assuming I know where I'm going!). Anyway luckily my employers have sites across London and they run a shuttle bus between them. So I got a bus to one of the other sites (the queue was huge) to get my shuttle bus. Anyway to cut a long story short, it took me an extra hour and a half to get in to work! Not happy! :mad:
 
I'm not personally effected, as I've been commuting on my bike for the past year now, as it's much nicer than getting the Tube everyday.

That said though, I still think it's a disgrace that Tube workers are always striking for such a key service that is needed in the Capital. This one also really annoys me because it's obvious that ticket offices are not needed in such abundance now that everyone uses Oyster. It's again the Union striking to stop a few people loosing their jobs... but then thousands in the private sector (including me and everyone I worked with last year) were made redundant, so why should they get any special treatment above everyone else in the country.
 
Bob Crow should be jailed imo.

My friend is over from Finland with his missues and they fly back to
day from Heathrow. I have had to spec him a journey from Edgware to the airport. Not easy with no tubes. We are looking at 3 buses and an overground from Ealing Broadway. :mad:
 
Nexus said:
I'm not personally effected, as I've been commuting on my bike for the past year now, as it's much nicer than getting the Tube everyday.

That said though, I still think it's a disgrace that Tube workers are always striking for such a key service that is needed in the Capital. This one also really annoys me because it's obvious that ticket offices are not needed in such abundance now that everyone uses Oyster. It's again the Union striking to stop a few people loosing their jobs... but then thousands in the private sector (including me and everyone I worked with last year) were made redundant, so why should they get any special treatment above everyone else in the country.
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Apparently the tube workers were getting annoyed because the TfL wanted to get rid of staff at stations where they sell less than 10 tickets an hour :rolleyes:

When will they get real and get it into their thick skulls that the tube service is overstaffed in some points and needs to be reduced. They seem to think the world owes them a job :rolleyes:
 
Bob Crow and his minions should be placed under the next train that runs on the underground .

For those that can remember we had all this crap in the 70's and 80's with the gas board and electricity board and Maggie sorted it all out by selling them off .

I understand you can't go privatising London Underground but in that case can't they come under the same laws as the police for strike action ? The grief it causes and loss of revenue is nothing short of insane
 
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