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Londoners - are you being inconvenienced by the tube strike?

Was just outside and there are scenes of near hysteria at the Victoria bus stop. It is always cramped and crowded and dirty, but today is more crowded than usual. Some folk were acting in a most undignified fashion. I remember when I were a lass we'd walk 2 hours to school on an untarred road wearing a couple of stale muffins strapped to our feet. People today...*sheesh*
 
Upchuck said:
Was just outside and there are scenes of near hysteria at Victoria bus section. It is always cramped and crowded and dirty, but today is more crowded than usual. Some folk were acting in a most undignified fashion. I remember when I were a lass we'd walk 2 hours to school on an untarred road wearing a couple of sale muffins strapped to our feet. People today...*sheesh*
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Victoria's always like that, which is why I refuse to get the No. 2 from there. I'm sure half these people don't realise they can get a train from Victoria to Brixton :D

I'm going to go shortly, because when the Victoria line had a strike, the train I got around 4.30 was jammed so I'm aiming for an earlier one and if I can't get on that, I'll try for the Streatham Hill one

Anyway, what are you moaning about, I didn't even have muffins. I walked barefoot... in the snow
 
I predict wild and unceremonius scenes at Leicester Square and Tottenham Crt Rd tonight as people push, barge, and shoulder to access the Northern Line.
 
Oswaldtwistle said:
Why is the DLR not affected? Are they covered by a different union?
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The train attendants also belong to RMT. Those that do belong to a union...

But the DLR is a separate "bargaining unit", so under Tory trade union laws it's illegal for them to strike in solidarity with the Tube "bargaining unit" (or units).

That's one of the reasons the DLR was built as a separate system... another was that someone convinced Thatcher it wasn't really a train :)


e2a: checked, and there is enough trade union organisation that they threatened to strike last year... no idea what's happening their pay claim this year...
 
Nope, not at all.

Ms T said:
Took me two hours instead of 45 mins - train and bus. It's a bastard getting from West London to South London when there's no Tube. After a ten-hour shift overnight and feeling desperately tired, I wanted to weep. :(
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That sounds horrible - my sympathies. Hope you don't have to do it again!
 
magneze said:
Great to see the blitz spirit alive and well on this thread. :cool:
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Indeed - I was in town yesterday and walking along when I spotted a couple of lurkers in a doorway - scruffy but not tramps as they had Starbucks cups (I suppose you can afford a latte or 3 if you're a tube driver on 40K a year) - it appeared to be a London Transport office - why picket that - it's not a tube station?

Anyway, they were polishing their knuckles on the pavement and making noises like "support the tube workers" - a nice lady (50's 2 shopping bags) was coming past the other way and growled "Bastards!" at them - one of them took umbrage and shouted "Oi - it's illegal to verbally abuse Tube workers", to which she responded - "Eff off - you're not bloody working now are you?".

Exeunt omnes, pursued by laughter.
 
Cobbles said:
Indeed - I was in town yesterday and walking along when I spotted a couple of lurkers in a doorway - scruffy but not tramps as they had Starbucks cups (I suppose you can afford a latte or 3 if you're a tube driver on 40K a year) - it appeared to be a London Transport office - why picket that - it's not a tube station?

Anyway, they were polishing their knuckles on the pavement and making noises like "support the tube workers" - a nice lady (50's 2 shopping bags) was coming past the other way and growled "Bastards!" at them - one of them took umbrage and shouted "Oi - it's illegal to verbally abuse Tube workers", to which she responded - "Eff off - you're not bloody working now are you?".

Exeunt omnes, pursued by laughter.
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It's bloody well resounding around here, too :hmm:
 
scifisam said:
Nope, not at all.



That sounds horrible - my sympathies. Hope you don't have to do it again!
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Not working today, thank God.

Hendo had to go to work yesterday for some management thingy that could have easily been postponed but wasn't. :rolleyes: It took him nearly two hours to drive home through bumper-to-bumper traffic in West London.
 
I really enjoy cycling past all this stationary traffic.

One small bugbear is the inexperienced cyclists on the roads, one guy crossing Battersea Bridge this morning blocked the inside line and refused to pass a transit van. Since this was at the entrance to the bridge, there was no chance of it turning left, unless it could jump the barriers into the river, and the way traffic was it would have been another 20 minutes to wait before he got over to the other side of the bridge.

Of course I just passed on the outside and didn't find out what happened, but still, it seems there is a desperate need for more adult cycle training.
 
Cobbles said:
"Bastards!" at them - one of them took umbrage and shouted "Oi - it's illegal to verbally abuse Tube workers", to which she responded - "Eff off - you're not bloody working now are you?".

Exeunt omnes, pursued by laughter.
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Classic. And fairs fairs. It's getting nasty out there. My boss has given up coming in, and apparently there's police on some buses, due to fights.
 
the roads are a carpark, the few gaps there are generally get filled by some chump on a rusty raliegh pulled out of the shed only on special occasions. my 1337 bike ninja skillz are really being put to the test today.
 
It cost me £20 to get to work with my suitcase which was too big to take on a bus.:mad:

My husband has been at work since Tuesday morning, without sleeping, because his stupid bastard company treat people like machines when there is a deadline.

Poor Ms T and Hendo.
 
He's a lawyer.
Lawyers do some of the longest hours in Europe, and somehow manage to avoid the European working hours directive law thingies.

I know he is not having an affair because he phoned me on his work number at 12pm 2am, 6am and 9am to make sad, exhausted noises at me.:(
:mad: at fucking law firms
 
Badger Kitten said:
It cost me £20 to get to work with my suitcase which was too big to take on a bus.:mad:

My husband has been at work since Tuesday morning, without sleeping, because his stupid bastard company treat people like machines when there is a deadline.

Poor Ms T and Hendo.
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:(

He is going to make it though, right?
 
How I would have stopped the Tube strike

:D

He loves winding-up Boris does Ken.


The Tube strike is unnecessary. As well as being a massive inconvenience for Londoners, it is damaging our economy and the reputation of our city.

It is a return to the bad old days of the Nineties when ineffective Underground managers made derisory offers to the unions who would then strike. An improved offer would be followed by another strike and finally a settlement higher than would have been the case if a reasonable offer had been made in the first place.

I wanted to end this culture of conflict when control of the Tube was finally passed to City Hall in 2003. I invested a lot of time in getting to know the leading personalities in the Tube unions and had many meetings with Underground staff.
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etc.
 
Had to go from crystal palace to archway this morning. A breeze via thameslink and a lovely stroll (northern was working) to archway.
Noticed Pussy Cat statue for Dick Whittington next to the hospital.

Yesterday I discovered the royal opera arcade that runs behind the haymarket cause all these non bus people were clogging my bus up.

I have enjoyed using other routes because of the strike.
 
A 40 minute journey this morning took about 1 1/2 hours and the return journey took about 1 hour, so I spent half an hour trunding around London in the sunshine instead of being stuck behind my desk.

:)
 
I'm not

This was me earlier:

christonabike.jpg


:)
 
Badger Kitten said:
He's a lawyer.
Lawyers do some of the longest hours in Europe, and somehow manage to avoid the European working hours directive law thingies.

I know he is not having an affair because he phoned me on his work number at 12pm 2am, 6am and 9am to make sad, exhausted noises at me.:(
:mad: at fucking law firms
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sad, exhausted noises at me exactly the sound a chap makes when he has some legal exec bent over the photocpier!!!!:D

Sorry, v poor joke etc
 
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