Londoners - are you being inconvenienced by the tube strike?

[fogbat]

we're not totally enamoured with you tube-sardines invading our busses

This.

I'll be giving stern looks to any non-regulars on my bus tomorrow

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Get them zomnied up and driving those trains

"Voodoo - Could It Save Us From Bob Crow?" It'll be on the front page of the Standard tomorrow, you mark my words.

 

[Stig]

Well, not really, it'll take me a lot longer to get to work tomorrow, but I'm not going to leave any earlier, and I've got a really good book on at the mo.

 

[kittyP]

Well, not really, it'll take me a lot longer to get to work tomorrow, but I'm not going to leave any earlier, and I've got a really good book on at the mo.

^^^ This, apart from I will leave a bit earlier.

It will all be OK.

Its not the end of the bloody world

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Other than the (presumably) massive cost, what is there to stop the whole tube network going driverless, similar to the DLR?

 

[Sean]

Dunno if I can be arsed with Liverpool Street to Clapham on a bus. How long's that going to take tomorrow, do you think?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Other than the (presumably) massive cost, what is there to stop the whole tube network going driverless, similar to the DLR?

It would probably be simpler, cheaper and less disruptive, short- and long-term, to rebuild the entire city on Mars. With monorails.

Anyway, the solution isn't hard; all you have to do is pay people properly and not treat them like cunts, and then they drive the trains.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

rebuild the entire city on Mars. With monorails.

Sounds like a plan.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Boris would go for that I bet you.

 

[Greebo]

I'm inconvenienced in that I can't take the day off work cos everybody knows I have a bike.

Next time, spend the week before the strike fuming about how "that ****ing bike shop are keeping my bike indefinitely and it'll cost an obscene amount to get it fixed." Might be bad karma though - it more or less invites major work to be needed on your bike.

 

[bluestreak]

I'm going to be terribly inconvenienced, getting to and from work tomorrow will be an absolute nightmare. And yet, somehow, I feel I'll survive and if it means my Da' gets a payrise and doesn't lose more of his pension out of it, I'm happy. If only because it might mean more inheritance money for me one day.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I feel I'll survive and if it means my Da' gets a payrise and doesn't lose more of his pension out of it, I'm happy. If only because it might mean more inheritance money for me one day.

Finally, someone's thinking properly about things.

 

[magneze]

Not at all, working from home.

 

[Tank Girl]

The buses will be rammed.

no more so than usual though, like I said there's no tube near us anyway and the people that get travel to get to the tube would be going on the bus like they do every morning.

 

[Upchuck]

Do you think the real spirit of the Blitz will come out tomorrow?

 

[London_Calling]

It will in BBC world.

 

[Belushi]

Do you think the real spirit of the Blitz will come out tomorrow?

Yeah, I'm looting a bombed out house in the morning and going door to door selling illicit powdered eggs in the afternoon.

 

[Upchuck]

Yeah, I'm looting a bombed out house in the morning and going door to door selling illicit powdered eggs in the afternoon.

If you need an offsider I'm there!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yes, I'm being slightly inconvenienced because I have to get up half an hour earlier (I live about two miles from work) and I'm worried about pupils getting in in time for their GCSEs at 8:30 but I am worried about the tube, the metronet fiasco and safety. I don't wholly swallow what either side say and think the truth is somewhere inbetween. I also know that being a tube driver is not a doddle, as I know a tube driver and a colleague is married to one as well.

 

[Cobbles]

No, and I'm going to be on the picket lines showing my support for the RMT workers.

Hopefully gobbing at them (anything else would be secondary picketing, surely).

 

[Onket]

Not this time. But I have before and have made alternative arrangements because like any person with sense, I support the strikes.

 

[marty21]

Not this time. But I have before and have made alternative arrangements because like any person with sense, I support the strikes.

I agree with Onket

 

[cybertect]

No. I live south of the river.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Day, maybe two days off and because I'm self-employed, out of pocket too. I could struggle in on the bus, but wouldn't mind a day off.

 

[lenny101]

The company I work for are already struggling. This is not going to help one bit. The rest of this week will be a write off.

 

[DotCommunist]

The company I work for are already struggling. This is not going to help one bit. The rest of this week will be a write off.

I love the way londeners start crying into their lattes when the tube is bust, despite having a bus service that puts most other large towns and cities to shame.

 

[ivebeenhigh]

will get the boat to embankment then stroll up to oxford circus. already told work not to expect me in before half 9. so i get a lie in.

 

[Crispy]

The company I work for are already struggling. This is not going to help one bit. The rest of this week will be a write off.

get up 30-45 minutes early and get the bus. no big deal at all.

 

[Azrael]

I'll be inconvenienced in that I'll have to get off and walk at my London overland terminus, but it shouldn't be more than a half-hour walk, and the exercise will do me good. Plenty of interesting things to see in London.

Pardon any excessive strike-supporting bonhomie.

 

[kyser_soze]

Nope, not one little bit. Train in to Victoria, 52 bus to Ladbroke grove. Slightly longer, but less changeover hassle, than my usual route...