Will You Survive Commuting During The Tube Strike?

“When you get into the central stations, it’s carnage”, said James Isaacs, who works for a private bank and was struggling with two large bags in the City of London financial district.

At 08:45 BST there have been 428 individual traffic jams round the town creating a mixed 197 miles (317km) of tailbacks, traffic experts TomTom stated.

Members of four unions are taking industrial action because of a deadlocked dispute over plans to launch a new all-night Tube service next month.

A radio listener called “Joe” who called up Vanessa Feltz’s show calling himself a Tube strike-supporting Londoner was exposed live on air by his bosses as a trade union political officer.

These services will run as normal, but they will be much busier than usual and people were strongly advised to travel outside of the morning and evening peaks.

The aptly-named ‘F**king Tube Strike’ site collects the most colourful expletives and scathing attacks on the Underground service and presents them on a live map.

The first full day of the tube strike has caused widespread disruption in the capital, with the closure of London Underground leaving many roads jammed and buses packed and disrupted.

Critics have stated that extending tube service into the night time will exclusively profit rowdy partygoers, nevertheless the mayor pushed again on that criticism, saying it’s aimed toward shift staff who at present face very prolonged commutes by bus.

“We listened to their concerns over work-life balance and put forward an extremely fair, revised offer”, Brown said.

Across the U.K.as a whole, train drivers, majority in the private sector, get a median salary of 47,956 pounds, according to the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, so that even with the new deal drivers on the state-run Tube stand to be more than 3,300 pounds better off. We have a volunteer army of hundreds on hand to help London’s workers, residents and visitors get around during the strike.

The offer did not impress the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) that has been seeking guarantees about the number of weekend night shifts drivers and other staff will be forced to work. “I thank customers for their patience as they make their journeys today”.

“We now ask them to engage properly in negotiations to get past this dispute and deliver the night Tube that London needs”.