21.45 Just a Northern, Bakerloo and Victoria lines with any services. The rest are closed.
21.15 Of all a Underground lines, usually a Northern continues to offer a good service.
21.00 The Central, Circle, Hammersmith City and Metropolitan lines are all now totally suspended.
20.25
20.15 UPDATE: Metropolitan line is partial dangling
20.10 Hospitality attention pleads for finish to strike movement
Ufi Ibrahim, arch executive of The British Hospitality Association said: “London’s economy is heavily reliant on a discerning and arguable open float network to pierce around a capital’s residents, tourists and visitors. Strike movement generally during bustling summer months is a genuine calamity for a hotel, grill and caller attractions who have to contend high standards while confronting a staff shortages and indeterminate patron ride ensuing from a float challenges.
“London needs a new round-the-clock tube use on weekends as shortly as possible: it is essential to keep adult with tellurian cities like New York and Berlin, and to support London’s 24-hour lifestyle. The unions should call off their strike movement and concede London to continue to acquire visitors with open arms.”
20.00 Tube drivers in numbers
19.55 Both a Central and District lines are now stating serious delays
19.40 Does a London Underground even need tellurian drivers? Have your say!
19.30 Why are Tube drivers striking?
19.25 Central London roads start to bend underneath a additional trade
Why on earth would we tighten Pall Mall east, Jermyn Street orange float all during a same time?
— ChickenGeorge87 (@ChickenGeorge87)
August 5, 2015
19.15 Urban navigation assist Citymapper gets confused and suggests that a Victoria line will be ‘strike safe’ tomorrow (Spoiler alert: it’s not)
@Citymapper your app lists @victorialine as a ‘strike safe’ route. Is it? IS IT REALLY? pic.twitter.com/SxpvkgYk2d
— Irfan Qureshi (@iamiq)
August 5, 2015
19.10 Your alternatives for a tour home tonight
National Rail
National Rail routes will mostly work as normal though services are approaching to be many busier than usual, quite during arise hours, so greatfully check before we travel.
DLR
A normal use will work though trains will be many busier than usual. Some stations where there is an rotate with London Underground competence be influenced
Entry and exit to DLR during Bank will be by Monument sinecure usually
London Overground
A normal use will work though trains will be many busier than usual. Some stations where there is an rotate with London Underground competence be affected.
Tramlink
A arise magnitude use will work via Thursday.
TfL Rail
A normal use will work though trains will be many busier than usual. Some stations where there is an rotate with London Underground competence be affected;
TfL is operative with Network Rail and a sight operators to safeguard that business have a latest information on how best to get around.
Buses
Services are being increasing with around 250 additional buses on pivotal routes though will be many busier than usual;
TfL Ambassadors and volunteers are being deployed to sight stations and hubs to yield business with float information and recommendation on a ground.
Buses do not accept cash. Please use contactless remuneration or Oyster. Contactless is a same float as Oyster. Top adult your Oyster compensate as we go credit or buy Travelcards and One Day Bus Tram passes during around 4,000 Oyster Ticket Stops opposite London. For a locations of these, greatfully revisit tfl.gov.uk/ticketstopfinder
Coaches
Coaches will run some-more frequently on some London routes on a day of a strike;
Several manager operators, including National Express and Green Line, offer services that stop in a series of locations via London.
Emirates Air Line
The Emirates Air Line will sojourn open until 23:00 on Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 August. Travelcards will be supposed
Cycling
TfL will put on additional cycle hubs from 07:00-11:00 and 16:00-20:00 on 6 Aug
River Services
TfL will work additional stream services during arise hours on RB1 and RB6 routes on Thursday 6 Aug between executive London and Canary Wharf, and executive London and Putney.
Taxis Private Hire
During arise times a marshalled cab use will work during critical London rail stations. The marshals will conduct cab and newcomer queues and yield recommendation and assistance to cab passengers and other members of a public;
Taxi and private sinecure services will be using as normal. Details for protected cab and private sinecure operators in London are accessible during www.tfl.gov.uk/cabwise.
Walking
Walking maps will be supposing online and during float hubs in executive London, with TfL Ambassadors and volunteers assisting people devise their routes around a city;
People are urged to ride for brief journeys, where possible.
19.05 District and Circle line now also news teenager delays
Thanks for a thought Posh. My new process for removing to work tomorrow during a tube strike #VBknowsbest #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/qUpJirIWC6
— Caroline McDonald (@carriemcdonaldx)
August 5, 2015
And as commuters start to anticipate how they will get to work tomorrow, this thought is tip of a pile.
18.55 As final time, confused passengers greeted by nearby dull trains in a mins before a finish shutdown
Never been in such an dull tube in London during 6.15 pm, a strike done a spectacle during rush hour @TfL
— Michela Venegoni (@MichelaVenegoni)
August 5, 2015
18.50 The Circle and Hammersmith City lines have already begun to feel a vigour
18.43 Londoners start to deposit home in annoy of Tube strike
A commuter creates her possess approach on a scooter
A integrate beats a crowds on a Northern line
Archway Station
18.27 Rush hour on a Northern Line
Glum faces on a Northern line
18.25 Londoner rushes for a final tube before a strike starts
Londoner rushes for a final tube before a #tubestrike sets in pic.twitter.com/UcYXt1Vha7
— Asa Bennett (@asabenn)
August 5, 2015
18.20 Fulham and Chelsea strike by double delays of football crowds and swell of commuters forward of Tube strike
Fulham and Chelsea areas are busy, due to increasing pedestrians since of Chelsea v Fiorentina (8pm KO) and also due to tube strike.
— TfL Traffic News (@TfLTrafficNews)
August 5, 2015
18.15 TfL staff plate out aspect maps to assistance commuters strike by overload forward of tonight’s tube strike
As bad as a tube strike will be, gotta conclude @TfL for giving out Bus Maps to try to make it siphon less… pic.twitter.com/HetEiy2Gsh
— AlwynHamilton (@AlwynFJH)
August 5, 2015
18.10 Maria Andersen has combined in to advise her associate commuters to be heedful of a feverishness on packaged services tonight
“Please remember to pierce H2O with we as it gets intensely comfortable and a atmosphere gets super bleak inside a cars,” she writes.
18.05 Cyclists kick a strike during Oxford Circus
Cyclists during Oxford Circus shortly before a strike
17.55 Passengers confronted by Tube strike demeanour on a splendid side of life
Rain a Tube Strike? …Good pursuit it’s a start of Great British Bake Off tonight! #positive
— Rhiannon Jones (@rhiannonmjones)
August 5, 2015
17.50 Oxford Circus paralysed by crowds
17.44 Night Tube-liveried trains send a daring summary from TfL bosses to strikers
Really amatory @TfL‘s pointed F U to a #tubestrike. Bring on a night tubes! pic.twitter.com/oPVmJb7d6l
— Leen (@Leenie_Pops)
August 5, 2015
17.37 With reduction than an hour to go until a strike will start to be felt, TfL’s rainbow house tels a possess story
The rainbow house Photo: TfL
17.30 More grave developments on a Tube this hour
Good thing we didn’t get on a Bakerloo to Baker Street. Gates tighten due to overcrowding #tubestrike @tfl pic.twitter.com/KchdLhSsWB
— Colleen Monaghan (@CocoMonaghan)
August 5, 2015
Top @TfL trolling on #tubestrike day pic.twitter.com/CtSVPfG6ej
— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter)
August 5, 2015
17.25 You can’t be a Tube motorist so there
It’s value mentioning Asa Bennett’s shining piece, Want to be a Tube driver? Well, we can’t. Here’s why, that is going bananas on a website
Tunnel vision: London Underground drivers will accept a 5 per cent compensate arise this year Photo: PA
17.20
A fist during London Bridge station
17.15 Victoria sinecure has buckled to a vigour already
17.10 … it’s good for we
This useful map will uncover we usually how many calories you’ll bake by holding Shanks’ pony.
17.05 Just walk…
Some virtuoso recommendation from a good people during Walk London, advising we on how prolonged it will take we to ride between Tube stops.
Bad news for a staff of Telegraph towers in Victoria – it would seem we are, discordant to what John Donne said, an island.
It’s 13 mins by feet to a nearest southerly tube, Pimlico, 14 mins westward to Sloane Square, 13 mins to St James’ Park in a easterly and a whopping 19 mins northbound to Green Park.
walk london Photo: ride london
17.00 Tube strike latest: summation
The dusk rush hour in London started early as workers attempted to get home before a strike sealed a capital’s whole Tube system.
Members of 4 unions are holding industrial movement for a second time in a month since of a unresolved brawl over skeleton to launch a new all-night use subsequent month.
No subterraneous trains will run this dusk or tomorrow, with a use returning to normal on Friday.
#TubeStrike. Please finish Tube journeys by 18:30 today. Travel progressing if possible. No use all day Thursday https://t.co/YVCR3HPLNP
— TfL Travel Alerts (@TfLTravelAlerts)
August 5, 2015
Extra buses will be laid on, though commuters and tourists face outrageous intrusion and London’s roads could be gridlocked if people switch to cars.
London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, done it transparent no some-more income will be charity to solve a quarrel over compensate and conditions, propelling unions to put a latest “incredibly generous” offer to their members.
Offal lot of problems currently @TfL #cowsontheline pic.twitter.com/YeD1bnVVpS
— Kriss Baird (@krissbaird)
August 5, 2015
17.00 Google joins Facebook with a ‘funny’ take on a critical industrial movement that will dull London
The story of a ‘character-building’ commute. Good fitness London #TubeStrike pic.twitter.com/UWFvoZbAdd
— Google UK (@GoogleUK)
August 5, 2015
16.55 And Uber respond by earnest to ride prices regardless of criticism…
16.53 Black cabs take a quarrel to Uber’s doorway
Attn London’s travelling public: Don’t get #ubered during a tube strike take a Taxi and enter a swell giveaway zone.
— Alan (@minthecab)
August 5, 2015
Email perceived from @Uber on a tube strike “higher prices will request to safeguard we can be a many arguable choice on a road” Really?
— Andrew Busby (@andrewbusby)
August 5, 2015
16.50 A formidable day for commuters streamer for a Thames bay and Essex.
#BishopsStortford-disruption approaching to final until approx 2200 due to cows on a track. KM
— Greater Anglia (@greateranglia)
August 5, 2015
@greateranglia Well I’ve listened it all now. Trains cancelled due to cows on a line!!! on tip of a tube strike as well!
— Katy Gordon (@Katy_Gordon)
August 5, 2015
16.47 Canary Wharf from a outward (no consternation a closed..)
My imminent doom awaits already #tubestrike #CanaryWharf pic.twitter.com/UCpDrM6FmG
— Ryan Foreman (@ryanforeman91)
August 5, 2015
16.44 Fresh in from a Comment Desk
VIDEO: Tube drivers’ kinship asked: ‘why are we fast another tube strike?’
16.41 Crowding on executive London services
Crowding on a Piccadilly line
People reserve during an opening to Oxford Circus station
16.39 The Tube strike takes on a Kafkaesque peculiarity
In no approach treacherous @TfL #baddata pic.twitter.com/J9S1H1qBAU
— Chris Bryson (@bryson_chris)
August 5, 2015
Wow, bold much? First we tighten a sheet office, afterwards you’re bold to customers. Nice going @TfL pic.twitter.com/4d1HL5Vuk4
— Luc Sei (@lsei01)
August 5, 2015
16.37 Do get in touch: how is your commute?
Do get in hold with reports of your journeys, any video or cinema and a latest updates – greg.walton@pilot.telegraph.co.uk
16.35 And now there’s no exit from Canary Wharf sinecure since of crowding
Jubilee line motorist usually suggested that there will be no exit from Canary Wharf due to overcrowding. #TubeStrike
— Kieran Mc (@kjmci)
August 5, 2015
16.32 Oxford Circus struggles to cope with a crowds
#tubestrike Oxford Circus removing bustling – people here were anticipating to kick a rush pic.twitter.com/7i1R3xueOM
— Alpa Patel (@alpapatel)
August 5, 2015
@TfL Disgusting… Is a Health and Safety of business even a consideration? #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/lEDwFk4tIw
— Rebecca Colleran (@bex_1990)
August 5, 2015
16.22 And so it begins: a Tube is removing bustling
They were not fibbing about a bustling tube around 4pm. It is already packed! #tubestrike
— Kelly Prince-Wright (@KellyFlatEleven)
August 5, 2015
#tubestrike London is packaged with people during 4.15, so if anyone is formulation to skip this strike they’re slicing it fine
— Matthew Chattle (@MatthewChattle)
August 5, 2015
And a possess Assistant Political Editor, Rosa Prince has beheld a construction of large screens during a entrances to Clapham Junction sinecure ” so they can arrangement messages tomorrow morning warning of overcrowding, that can get dangerous even on non-strike days.”
Meanwhile a platforms are already rammed during Piccadilly Circus.
Piccadilly Circus already. And we snuck out early #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/TVOufotcUQ
— Dan Peters (@DanofRxR)
August 5, 2015
16.18 Facebook enters a ravel
While we competence not indeed be means to float a Tube, we can during least learn some fascinating contribution about a London Underground, gathered by The Telegraph group and a Tech group have beheld that Facebook has entered a fray, Facebook is enlivening users to whinge about a Tube strike.
16.15 Chelsea fans warned to arrive in good time for Fiorentina tie
Planned tube strike from 1830. Pls arrive early for Chelsea v Fiorentina compare check https://t.co/al7fvZ9qAQ to devise your tour home.
— London Overground (@LDNOverground)
August 5, 2015
16.07 A word from one of London’s business run groups, London First
David Leam, Director of Infrastructure Policy during London First, said:
“Far from being a self-centredness project, as a RMT claims, night Tube services are a critical partial of a infrastructure of a complicated universe city. Cities from New York to Berlin already have a night use and London risks being left behind.
“This strike is an unwelcome interruption for a capital’s workers and a business community. There is a good understanding on offer to Tube workers; their unions should now finish this latest try to forestall modernisation on a Underground.”
16.02: A pointer since a unions are distinguished
The RMT’s prospectus on ‘Why we’re striking’ – they contend that they are receiving a compensate cut, when acceleration is factored in, and that reductions in staffing numbers have led to some-more assaults, passionate nuisance and worse conditions for infirm passengers on a tube.
15.42: Priority black cabs for puncture use workers
Hailo, a app that works with a swift of 15,000 London black cabs, is charity a priority use for puncture services.
Workers such as doctors, nurses, firefighters and military officers will be means to use a special engagement use and bonus formula to assistance keep London’s critical services using smoothly.
Gary Bramall, arch selling officer during Hailo pronounced “Tube strikes are formidable times for all Londoners and we’ll do a pinnacle to minister to gripping London relocating as uniformly and good as possible.
“In sequence to cope with demand, that increasing by adult to 800 per cent during a final strike in July, we strongly suggest passengers pre-book their journeys and, where possible, separate journeys with their friends and colleagues streamer in a same direction.”
For some-more details, click here.
Tube Strike Part Deux is roughly on us, London. Demand is set to surge, though a prices never will! Grab a Hailo taxi. #tubestrike
— Hailo London (@HailoLondon)
August 5, 2015
15.33: Three hours until strike starts
It’s now usually underneath 3 hours until a London Underground industrial movement starts – and all routes home are approaching to be busier than common from 4.30pm as commuters try to make an early escape. Here’s a latest from Transport for London:
All open float roads will be busier than common from 16.30 due to #Tubestrike #checkbeforeyoutravel http://t.co/NMAjeJb2Z5
— Transport for London (@TfL)
August 5, 2015
15.29: Allow staff to work felxible hours, says CBI
The CBI, that speaks on interest of 190,000 businesses opposite Britain, has urged unions to lapse to a trade list – as it speedy businesses to concede staff to work stretchable hours. Lucy Haynes, CBI Director, said:
We would inspire all parties to lapse to a negotiating list to equivocate a intrusion this strike will means to a capital’s businesses, not to discuss during one of a city’s busiest traveller periods.
“Nevertheless, firms will work with their employees, customers, and suppliers to minimise a impact of this strike. Wherever possible, companies will inspire their staff to work flexibly to equivocate formidable journeys.”
15.25: Commuters face slimy ride home
Oh dear. If you’re deliberation avoiding open float tonight and walking instead, a foresee is not looking favourable…
Not an ideal night for a #tubestrike in #London with sleet on a way. Stay adult to date during – http://t.co/TiLp1nkkmm. pic.twitter.com/SU3vuwXPAV
— Weather Network UK (@TheWeatherNetUK)
August 5, 2015
15.20: How we can get home from work
If you’re sitting during work in London plotting an early shun home, here’s a discerning pointer of your options (see 14.10 post for some-more details):
15.16: But here’s since we substantially can’t be a Tube motorist
After reading about a financial prospects of Tube drivers, we competence design thousands to request for any vacancy. Think again, says Asa Bennett.
Transport for London hasn’t indeed been promotion tube motorist vacancies to a public, so there are remarkably few field for any position – as they are all internal.
TfL doesn’t publicize a jobs outwardly due to a understanding with a trade unions, that means it goes for inner possibilities first, and usually offers vacancies to a open if it fails to find adequate people to fill a posts.
15.11: How many do Tube drivers get paid?
Despite a lapse of a all-London Tube strike, drivers are earning many some-more than we competence think, finds The Telegraph’s Asa Bennett as he crunches a numbers.
15.05: Strike to strike Chelsea compare
Among those influenced by a strike will by fans travelling to Stamford Bridge for Chelsea’s accessible diversion with Fiorentina, that kicks off during 8pm.
14.53: How many will a strike cost a economy?
As thousands of London Underground workers go on strike, what is a loyal cost to a British economy? £10 million? £300 million? Or a acquire boost to a capital’s night economy?
Here, a Telegraph’s Sophie Jamieson examines a intensity outcome on a capital’s businesses.
Estimates of a cost of a one day strike operation from £10m to £300m Photo: OLI SCARFF/GETTY IMAGES
14.40: Strike movement ‘totally unnecessary’
Here’s video of London mayor Boris Johnson condemning a strike as “totally unnecessary” as he insisted Transport for London has already done London Underground workers a “very good offer”.
14.30: ’52 days holiday already a unequivocally good deal’
Boris Johnson, a Mayor of London, has pronounced Tube drivers and sinecure staff going on strike already suffer a “very good” deal, with adult to 52 days of holiday a year, as Deputy Political Editor Steven Swinford reports:
Mr Johnson pronounced that staff on a Tube network are being charity ‘very substantial sums of money’ to take on a new shifts including above acceleration compensate rises and bonuses.
Tube drivers are paid £49,673 a year for a standard 36 hour week, and suffer 43 days holiday a year.
Station staff are paid £29,000 and get 52 days a year of holiday.
Under a new understanding being charity to a unions, staff will accept a dual per cent compensate arise this year and acceleration proofed compensate rises in 2016 and 2017.
14.20: Will it unequivocally be quicker to walk?
Many Londoners will try their fitness during walking during a strike to kick a sight queues. But will it unequivocally be quicker – and how many calories will we burn?
Here, a Telegraph’s John O’Ceallaigh crunches a numbers with an interactive map graphic
The map shows a calories counted if walking between Tube stations
14.10: How can we get around during a strike?
So what will a float conditions be like this evening? In a word: busy.
Staff on a sight network, DLR, London Overground, tram and TfL Rail services will not be on strike, though these are approaching to be many busier than usual. Here, a Telegraph’s Natalie Paris explains your options…
London Overground
TfL suggests services will be busier than usual, generally where stations bond with a Underground.
DLR
Stations with Tube and Overground interchanges such as Shadwell, Stratford and Canary Wharf will be bustling while a entrance and exit to a DLR during Bank will be by Monument sinecure only.
National Rail and TfL Rail
All scheduled services on National Rail will be using as common for a many partial solely for those operated by Chiltern Railways. But if travelling on Wednesday afternoon and during arise hours on Thursday, TfL is advising those with a stretchable sheet to change their tour times in sequence to palliate congestion.
TfL says an 250 additional buses will be on a roads during a strike, though passengers are asked to be patient Photo: Getty
Will London buses be running?
TfL has committed to putting 250 additional buses on a roads of a collateral during a strike. It will also muster additional staff during Tube and sight stations to approach travellers onto choice routes.
The buses are also approaching to be bustling however and passengers are asked to be patient. Traffic on a roads is also approaching to be a problem, with a upsurge negligence to a hindrance in many areas during a final Tube strike.
Travellers are reminded that buses no longer accept or lift cash. You can compensate by a contactless withdraw label or with an Oyster card. Here is a TfL sight map to assistance we devise a lane home by bus.
River vessel services are also approaching to busy Photo: Getty
River boats
The stream is a scenic alternative, if zero else, nonetheless we can design this to be bustling too. Extra services will be using between executive London and Canary Wharf and executive London and Putney.
Trams
A arise time use will be using via a strike.
Will my Tube sheet be supposed on other routes?
TfL has a following information on tickets:
Printed singular Tube tickets will be supposed on sight and tram services on reasonable choice routes. Printed Tube tickets will not be current on National Rail services
Travelcards will be supposed within a zones purchased as common
National Rail tickets current for cross-London float will be supposed on buses on reasonable choice routes
Travelcards will be supposed on a Emirates Air Line
Day Travelcards bought in allege for float on Wednesday 5 or Thursday 6 Aug can be returned before a day of float for a full reinstate
Pay as we go fares (on Oyster or contactless cards) will be charged for a services used and will not be refunded
What do drivers need to know?
The overload assign will sojourn in place. Expect congestion.
Coaches
Some manager routes float from one side of London to a other and so competence be useful. TfL had a following advice:
Golders Green – Finchley Road – Baker Street – Marble Arch – Victoria Coach Station (National Express)
Brent Cross – Finchley Road – Baker Street – Marble Arch – Victoria (Green Line)
Hillingdon – Shepherd’s Bush/Baker Street – Marble Arch – Victoria (Oxford Tube X90)
Hammersmith – Kensington – Hyde Park Corner – Victoria (Green Line)
Stratford – Bow – Aldgate – Victoria Coach Station (National Express)
Bexley – Canary Wharf – Aldgate – Embankment – Victoria Street (Commuter Services)
Sutton – Streatham – Stockwell – Victoria Coach Station (National Express)
Eltham – Lewisham – Walworth – Elephant Castle – Victoria Coach Station (National Express)
There will also be an hourly use to Heathrow Central Bus Station and Terminals 4 and 5
Taxis like buses will get stranded in all a additional traffic Photo: Getty
Taxis
Taxis are also expected to get stranded in traffic. Queues during ranks will be policed by TfL “marshalls”.
Boris bikes
Hubs will be restocked some-more frequently and there will be new hubs in place at:
Abbey Orchard Street (Victoria)
Soho Square (Soho)
Houghton Street (Strand)
Finsbury Square (Moorgate)
Waterloo Place (St James)
Chapel Place (Marylebone)
Concert Hall Approach (Waterloo)
14.00: More strike movement could be on cards
The Tube strike competence not have begun yet, though a brawl about Night Tubes has already worsened – after a kinship announced it will list MORE workers for industrial action.
The RMT pronounced it will now list engineers operative for Tube Lines for strikes over a same dispute. The Tube Lines staff contend a Piccadilly, Northern and Jubilee lines.
The association is partial of a bequest from a collapsed public-private partnership (PPP) that a RMT pronounced combined “chaos” opposite London Underground.
“Tube Lines staff have been charity a understanding over a subsequent dual years on compensate and 24-hour using that mirrors that on offer to a rest of a LU workforce,” pronounced RMT ubiquitous secretary Mick Cash.
“It is as unsuitable on Tube Lines as it is opposite a rest of a mix and as a outcome these essential upkeep staff will now be balloted for both strike movement and movement brief of a strike.”
Mick Cash, RMT General Secretary
13.50: ‘We sojourn accessible for talks during any time’
London Undergound handling executive Nick Brown has apologised to passengers for a intrusion they are about to be strike with – and urged a 4 unions concerned in a brawl (Aslef, RMT, TSSA and Unite unions) to put a latest offer to their members. He said:
Drivers will have a same series of weekends off as now and no one will be asked to work some-more hours than they do today. Everybody will sojourn entitled to dual days off in seven. Annual leave will sojourn during 43 days for a sight motorist and 52 days for sinecure staff.
“The unions deserted this satisfactory offer undisguised and instead demanded some-more money, a employing of even some-more staff – including for sheet offices that business no longer use – and a 32 hour, 4 day week. No employer can means to accommodate those sorts of demands.
“We continue to titillate them to call off a strike, put a new offer to their members and not theme Londoners to serve nonessential disruption. We sojourn accessible for talks during any time.”
Transport for London pointer warning of intrusion during a strike
13.20: Night Tube – a good idea?
What are your thoughts on a new Night Tube for London – during a heart of a latest strike dispute. Have your contend by voting in a poll:
13.40: Dispute over Night Tube compensate and conditions
What accurately is a strike all about? In short, workers are in brawl over compensate and conditions for a new all-night use designed to start subsequent month during weekends on some lines.
Unions have called for a check to a designed Sep 12 start of a Night Tube so that serve negotiations can be hold to try to mangle a unresolved row.
RMT personality Mick Cash said: “Despite all a boast from mayor Boris Johnson, Londoners need to be wakeful that night Tube was rushed and botched from a off, and that is since 5 weeks before it starts staff are distinguished since they will not accept that their work/life change should be wrecked to block a gaping holes in staffing ability that should have been dealt with from day one.”
London’s Night Tube will take passengers to a hinterland of London though doesn’t use nightlife hotspots
A orator for a mayor said: “Despite a fair, essential and inexhaustible offer on a list – that will see nobody operative some-more hours than they do currently – a unions have selected not to put it to their members and to reject it outright.
“The fact is that a night Tube is good upheld by Londoners and by businesses opposite a capital. The Mayor believes that many reasonable people see a introduction as a on-going pierce for float in a city.”
Here’s a accessible box explaining since staff are going on strike:
13.30: London rush-hour to start early
Hello and acquire to a live coverage of a latest Tube strike set to pierce London Underground to a standstill.
We’re awaiting a rush hour to start progressing this afternoon as commuters conflict to get home before a complement is brought to a halt.
Members of 4 unions are walking out for 24 hours from 6.30pm and 9.30pm today, crippling a network until Friday morning.
Transport for London says extra sight and stream services are being laid on during a strike, though warned that all open float and roads will be busier than usual.
People are suggested to finish their journeys by 6.30pm tonight and to float progressing if they can. Workers and tourists will also face a day of intrusion tomorrow as a complement is totally sealed for a second time in a month.
Stay with us via a dusk – and all day tomorrow – for a latest updates.
Commuters cranky a River Thames during a Jul 9 Tube strike