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• London Underground will not lapse to normal until Friday morning
• Tube shutdown army commuters to ride or squeeze onto buses
• Buses, Overground, TfL rail, Boris bikes and stream services all busy
• More than 400 trade jams means 200 miles of tailbacks
• Union calls for compensate to arise with residence prices in Night Tube row
• Strike comes as Conservatives launch new attack on kinship appropriation
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The strike has strictly ended, though services will not resume until a tiny hours of Friday morning. A summation of a day’s events: The tube drivers’ kinship is perfectionist that a members should get compensate rises in line with increases in residence prices as millions of people face ride disharmony given of their preference to go on strike.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union has pronounced that a “standard negotiate position” is for compensate to boost in line with lease and House Prices.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has foresee that a normal residence cost will arise by 25 per cent between now and 2020.
It comes after Boris Johnson, a Mayor of London, forked to a “generous” condition that tube drivers already enjoy, such as a income of £49,673 a year for a standard 36 hour operative week and 43 days of holiday.
The RMT and 3 other unions have refused to accept a 2 per cent compensate arise and a £2,000 reward for operative on a new night Tube service, that is due to be rolled out subsequent month.
They disagree that night shifts are unpropitious to a good being of their workers and will put open reserve during risk.
Leaflets constructed for a open by a RMT state that one of their objectives is a “flat-rate boost for all staff that keeps gait with augmenting vital costs, such as lease and residence prices.
A orator for a RMT pronounced that a design is a “standard negotiate position that we adopt with each negotiation”. The tube is not due to re-open until Friday morning.
Meanwhile a male who called into BBC London radio claiming to be a member of a open fortifying distinguished Tube workers was suggested to be an RMT executive when his loyal temperament was disclosed live on air.
18.30 Louise Burke alerts a readers to a giveaway clipper to Greenwich
@Louiseontwitr: Free clipper down to Greenwich – flattering renouned choice #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/y2SbwphDWp
— Louise Burke (@Louiseontwitr)
August 6, 2015
18.25 Julien from Tom Tom has got in reason to tell us that there have been 500 miles of tailbacks currently
“Congestion on London’s roads this dusk is many worse than during a morning rush hour.
“Traffic appearance during 17.52 when there were 894 apart trade jams causing 500 miles of tailbacks, according to trade experts during TomTom.
“That’s some-more than double this morning’s congestion, when there were 428 jams and scarcely 200 miles of tailbacks.
“But, as this morning, a sum are down on a tube strike in Jul when there were 1495 jams and 833 miles of delays during a dusk peak.
“The many undiluted highway was a M25 from a A243 (J9) to a M40 (J16) with a reserve of 17 miles causing delays of an hour.”
18.20 A reserve queuing for a reserve by a Thames
Queuing to get down a cement #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/c22xcYfxpd
— Unity Blott (@UnityBlott)
August 6, 2015
18.10 Boris bikes relocated around London to accommodate surging approach
Good aged @tfl people relocating Boris Bikes around London like chips in a Casino. My £ is on Londoners to win #NightTube pic.twitter.com/Dr3xdvXTqH
— Matt Clare (@MattCElthamSth)
August 6, 2015
18.05 Long waits for buses reported during St Paul’s Cathedral
18.00 Buses are no longer interlude during Great Portland Street
I’m walking thru executive London given a buses don’t even stop anymore, they are too full #tubestrike @TfL #fail pic.twitter.com/r4STBY4qrH
— Stefan Misaras (@stefan4m)
August 6, 2015
18.00 TfL seem to have put a teen in assign of a sight alerts Twitter
@GabbygalEvs Yeah, though they’re behind by about 45mins due to a #tubestrike Craig
— TfL Bus Alerts (@TfLBusAlerts)
August 6, 2015
17.50 Cab motorist Jon Smith has called for firms handling in London’s outdoor reaches to be authorised into Zone 1 to assistance palliate strike intrusion
“We’re sitting in a London taxis in a suburban areas going nowhere! Why can’t Boris make an difference for us yellow badges to assistance a commuters get home on strike days?”
17.40 Underground bosses once again titillate a Night Tube
Steve Griffiths, London Underground’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “We appreciate a business for temperament with us during this nonessential strike action. we am contemptible that many people’s journeys have been formidable today, though we are doing all we can to get a business around by other means. We have also taken advantage of a fact no trains are regulating by creation swell with engineering work.
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“The dusk arise will be really bustling again tonight, so we titillate people to ride during other times if they can and concur a bit some-more time for their journeys. We have done a really satisfactory offer to a unions that includes compensate rises and bonuses for all, and guarantees to strengthen work-life balance. With a drivers, sinecure staff and other roles that we have recruited for a Night Tube, it is also formulating over 500 jobs. We now ask them to rivet scrupulously in negotiations to get past this brawl and broach a Night Tube that London needs. We sojourn prepared to speak during any time.”
17.35 Tube strike sight tour time-lapse
17.30: South West trains organization struggling to get to work given of Tube strike
@Mikepaws The tube strike has done it formidable for some of a staff to get into work that has caused some crewing issues today.
— South West Trains (@SW_Trains)
August 6, 2015
17.25: And now Liverpool ride starts to bend underneath a vigour
This is my q for a bus! Bloody @TfL u have no justification for your actions! #greed pic.twitter.com/udSQV1OtQV
— Nicola (@wickednicki)
August 6, 2015
17.20: Take to a Thames if we can, contend TfL
Extra stream services will work currently between executive London and Canary Wharf, and executive London and Putney http://t.co/lPftROE9zd
— Metropolitan line (@metline)
August 6, 2015
17.15: More than half of executive London roads pang serious delays
This is what happens to trade when there’s a tube strike in London. Damn. pic.twitter.com/qGqZ8CDN0V
— Josh Payton (@jpay)
August 6, 2015
17.10: Paddington sinecure already gripped by rush hour disharmony
Paddington Stn an comprehensive mess. @TfL @NetworkRailPAD greatfully arrange out a disaster during a dump off / cab arrange area
— Rossi (@CabbieLondon)
August 6, 2015
17.05: Some commuters onslaught to sense a definition of ‘Tube strike’
16.53: Even a Pet Shop Boys are carrying their contend
Neil and Chris vowed to not let a #tubestrike meddle with their plans. The 207 sight was in for a surprise…. pic.twitter.com/mHZ21v7m4t
— Pet Shop Boys (@petshopboys)
August 6, 2015
Please send your ride tales, invert images and videos to greg.walton@pilot.telegraph.co.uk
16.50: Meanwhile lots of first-time sight commuters protest about conditions on a new ‘Boris Bus’ Routemasters
@TfL are these new lane masters meant to be atmosphere conditioned??! Sweltering!
— Trow (@fivetime5)
August 6, 2015
Please @TfL given are a new buses so hot!!! Got on a 73 and had to get off as like a sauna! Wheres a atmosphere con?
— alison bygrave (@allieby)
August 6, 2015
16.45: Despite a sum Tube shutdown, commuters concur that this strike distant reduction disruptive than final one; improved preparedness, summer holidays.
Cautiously competence be fine re tube strike travel. Which wd be a relief.
— Melinda Haunton (@melindahaunton)
August 6, 2015
16.35: Embattled commuters share their home-time tour dramas as a strike is felt on London’s roads
@TfL @metpoliceuk this sight pulled out in front of my ambulance in euston afterwards jumped a red light!! pic.twitter.com/4DZamNSoCX
— Jamie (@UNKNOWNW9)
August 6, 2015
@TfL Smart pierce holding south organisation sight line out on Vauxhall Bridge. pic.twitter.com/s5p59HCSeR
— Der Treiber (@DerTreiber)
August 6, 2015
16.30: Rinse FM DJ forced to horde her radio uncover from slow-moving sight given of strike
Currently doing my uncover over a phone on a sight means of a tube strike.. Soon strech https://t.co/mHixgIGQYx
— Maya Jama (@MayaJama)
August 6, 2015
16.08: Cable automobile runs until 11pm
Here’s another ride choice that’s (slightly) reduction nerve-wracking than paddle boarding or roving a penny farthing…
Beat a #Tubestrike tonight on Emirates Air Line wire car. Crossing a #Thames until 11pm tonight pic.twitter.com/EQUWp6Umgf
— Emirates Air Line (@EmiratesAirLDN)
August 6, 2015
15.53: Paddle boarding to kick a Tube strike
Talking about surprising ways to ride in London… check out Nic Jackson, who works for a website NotOnTheHighStreet.com and paddle boarded his approach along a River Thames from Richmond to his bureau in Chiswick.
Nic Jackson paddle boarding to work from Richmond
15.39: ‘Penny farthing becomes some-more fast as we collect adult speed’
Here’s some-more from a Londoner who managed to kick a Tube strike by cycling to work on a 19th century-style penny farthing bicycle.
Alan Price, who has owned a penny-farthing given a 1980s, incited heads when he used a bike to invert from his home nearby Battersea Bridge to Parsons Green (see 10.59 piece).
A former helicopter commander and partner of motorbikes, Mr Price claims he always likes to ride in character and also owns a Segway – a two-wheeled, self-balancing, battery-powered electric vehicle. Mr Price, 62, pronounced his two-mile tour was comparatively “easy” notwithstanding a strike:
“There was indeed reduction trade this morning than usual. There was substantially a few some-more bikes on a highway though really not as many cars and buses as expected. we consider everybody has substantially attempted to stay and work from home.
“You can get adult to about 25mph on them, though we wouldn’t advise it. They indeed work in a conflicting approach to complicated bikes that turn some-more fast as we collect adult speed.”
Mr Price also competes as a penny-farthing polo actor for England and claims a Victorian bicycles are some-more fast during reduce speeds than their complicated counterparts.
Alan Price looks down on other cyclists from his penny farthing (PA)
15.24: London continue foresee
And if we are attack a streets of London on foot, we have reduction possibility of removing soppy currently than yesterday – during slightest according to this forecast:
06/08/15 – Dry with some sunshine, quite later, though a lot of cloud. Max 23c Wind SW 13mph Chance of precip: 0% Min 9c
— London Weather (@London_Weather)
August 6, 2015
15.13: Map of London for walking commuters
If you’re formulation to ride home instead of braving open ride (and you’re one of a few people in London though a intelligent phone), here’s a accessible map of a capital:
Thinking of #walking home tonight during a #Tubestrike ? Download a map of executive London here http://t.co/KjOetMA574
— Transport for London (@TfL)
August 6, 2015
15.04: Don’t forget – Tube not regulating until tomorrow
As we will see from a countdown during a tip of this article, a strike is strictly over in usually over 3 hours. But don’t forget: there will not be ANY Tubes regulating until Friday morning.
14.51: Want to know how many Tube drivers earn? You’re a Nazi…
As a Tube strike over compensate and operative conditions rumbles on, some Twitter users get extremely huffy when we indicate out a numbers, finds Asa Bennett – who has been described as carrying “Nazi extremist views”.
Union members reason a picket outward Kings Cross sinecure (PA)
14.33: Vanessa Feltz to kinship repute caller: ‘Consider yourself rumbled’
This is a ungainly impulse an RMT kinship repute was “rumbled” on broadcaster Vanessa Feltz’s BBC London radio uncover currently
Jared Wood, a London Underground sinecure supervisor, was outed as a heading member of a kinship when he phoned a programme posing as “Joe”.
But his voice was recognized by Nick Brown, Managing Director of London Underground, who has holding partial in a studio phone-in with listeners.
Feltz told him: “Consider yourself rumbled, given we got rumbled by your trainer there.”
Wood argued he used a fake name as Transport for London bosses indoctrinate staff not to make any open comment. You can listen to a confront here…
14.16: London buses no longer accept income
If currently is a initial time you’ve hold a sight in a while, this could be a profitable reminder:
250 additional buses are regulating during #TubeStrike don’t forget we can usually compensate by Oyster, Contactless or a sight pass http://t.co/aP0oVyrBhC
— Transport for London (@TfL)
August 6, 2015
14.02: ‘If anyone tries to burst a sight reserve I’ll chuck we off’
Staff during London Victoria’s sight sinecure are struggling to keep sequence as desirous travellers try to burst a queues this afternoon.
“If anyone tries to burst a reserve for this sight afterwards we will chuck we off it,” one attendant was overheard bellowing during passengers.
13.48: Union calls for compensate to arise with residence prices
The Tube drivers’ kinship is perfectionist that a members should get compensate rises in line with increases in residence prices as millions of people face ride disharmony given of their preference to go on strike, Deputy Political Editor Steven Swinford reports.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union has pronounced that a “standard negotiate position” is for compensate to boost in line with lease and House Prices.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has foresee that a normal residence cost will arise by 25 per cent between now and 2020.
It comes after Boris Johnson, a Mayor of London, forked to a “generous” condition that Tube drivers already enjoy , such as a income of £49,673 a year for a standard 36 hour workiong week and 43 days of holiday.
The RMT and 3 other unions have refused to accept a dual per cent compensate arise and a £2,000 reward for operative on a new night Tube service, that is due to be rolled out subsequent month.
They disagree that night shifts are unpropitious to a wellbeing of their workers and will put publilc reserve during risk.
Leaflets constructed for a open by a RMT state that one of their objectives is a “flat-rate incraese for all staff that keeps gait with augmenting vital costs, such as lease and residence prices.
A orator for a RMT pronounced that a design is a “standard negotiate position that we adopt with each negotiation”.
Commuters have been strike with calamity journeys amid a Tube strike (Julian Andrews/Eye R8/The Telegraph)
13.20: London’s many scenic sight routes
With a Tube strike causing vital disruption, Londoners have a possibility to see a sights while they travel. Here are 5 sight routes that pass a capital’s many eye-catching landmarks…
The Number 24 sight offers views of Nelson’s Column (AP)
12.55: Lunchtime Tube strike summation
Here’s a discerning summation of today’s Tube strike for those usually fasten us… London is still in a center of ride disharmony given of an ongoing strike by hundreds of London Underground workers.
Tube services belligerent to a hindrance final night and will not lapse to normal until tomorrow morning, forcing commuters and tourists to ride or squeeze on to packaged buses.
Members of 4 unions are holding industrial movement for a second time in a month given of a unresolved brawl over skeleton to launch a new all-night Tube use subsequent month.
Hundreds of additional buses were laid on this morning, though there was outrageous intrusion – with roads gridlocked as people switched to cars. At 8.45am there were 428 apart trade jams causing 197 miles of tailbacks, according to trade experts during TomTom. That was double a overload during a same time final Thursday.
Commuters formulation their journeys home are suggested to concur some-more time – and ride outward of arise hours if possible.
Commuters channel York Road outward Waterloo sight sinecure (Rex)
12.38: Warning to ride outward arise hours
TfL is propelling passengers who can change their skeleton to ride outward arise hours this afternoon – and concur some-more time for their journeys.
Steve Griffiths, London Underground’s Chief Operating Officer, said:
I am contemptible that many people’s journeys have been formidable this morning, though we are doing all we can to get a business around by other means.
“We are also holding advantage of a fact no trains are regulating by creation swell with engineering work.
“The dusk arise will be really bustling again tonight, so we titillate people to ride during other times if they can and concur a bit some-more time for their journeys.”
The gates during Victoria tube sinecure are close (AFP)
12.25: Engineering work during Tube strike
London Underground (LU) pronounced it is holding advantage of trains not regulating by carrying out additional engineering work.
This includes work during Walthamstow Central to get forward of report with a ongoing lane deputy work there.
LU has also given Crossrail opening to sites during locations including Liverpool Street, Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road, to lift out additional work via a day and night during a strike action.
11.59: When skating helps kick queues
Here’s one lady who managed to kick a sight queues with a skateboard, one of those given out to commuters as partial of a promotional eventuality by Penny Skateboards.
A lady skates by executive London (AFP)
11.42: Tube trains idle during repository
If you’re wondering where Tube trains live during a strike, here are some of them. This design shows Piccadilly line trains during Boston Manor repository in Northfields, west London.
Piccadilly line trains during Boston Manor repository (Heathcliff O’Malley/The Telegraph)
11.24: Severe sight delays in easterly London
If you’re aiming to ride by sight in easterly London, we need to know about this – Tfl says thee are serious delays around Mile End and Bethnal Green:
Severe delays in Mile End, Bethnal Green areas in instruction of Aldgate. Delays now reported behind as distant as Bow.
— TfL Bus Alerts (@TfLBusAlerts)
August 6, 2015
11.15: Hundreds some-more Boris bikes on a roads
It looks like there are still copiousness of Boris bikes stationed during 11 additional “pop up” sites where people can collect adult and lapse them. For those wanting to take to a streets on dual wheels, there’s a map of where we can find them in a 08.02 post.
If you’re looking for #SantanderCycles to sinecure or return, come to one of a additional Pop-up Hubs we’ll assistance we out. pic.twitter.com/9sqL480brD
— Transport for London (@TfL)
August 6, 2015
10.59: Penny for your thoughts on how to kick a strike…
Here’s one cyclist who is conduct and shoulders above other commuters – as he beats a Tube strike… on a penny farthing!
Alan Price incited heads as he done his approach opposite Battersea Bridge this morning. It’s positively one approach to get a good perspective of a highway ahead…
Alan Price on his penny farthing opposite Battersea Bridge (PA)
10.53: Picture round-up
Here’s a discerning round-up of a best cinema from this morning’s Tube strike we’ve seen so far…
Commuters squeeze to get on buses during Kings Cross (PA)
Commuters cranky London Bridge during a Tube strike (Julian Simmonds/Telegraph)
Gates sealed during Victoria Underground sinecure (AFP)
10.40: ‘Strike behind with a spririt of Ronald Reagan’
On today’s letters page, Telegraph reader Jim Grant draws comparisons with a actions of former US President Ronald Reagan as he explains what he thinks TfL should do…
#tubestrike pic.twitter.com/xzjY43sXsj
— Telegraph Letters (@LettersDesk)
August 6, 2015
10.35: Major queues on Victoria Embankment
After that rather unimaginable map display a transparent Waterloo Bridge earlier, staff during TomTom have been in reason to endorse trade is indeed issuing openly on a overpass and Blackfriars Bridge. However, there are vital tailbacks on Victoria Embankment north of a stream and Stamford Street to a South.
10.28: Bus queues during Liverpool Street sinecure
Back during a extensive sight queues, this video from Liverpool Street sinecure a brief time ago shows a line of would-be passengers circuitous turn a top turn concourse.
10.20: ‘Driving a Tube is easy and not value £50,000 a year’
Tube drivers have been holding a mickey out of Londoners for distant too many years and it’s time we called their bluff, says Julia Hartley-Brewer:
“The law is that they are paid an absurdly high salary for what is fundamentally inexperienced work that flattering many anyone could do after a few months’ training.
“With a biggest honour in a world, usually how formidable is it to press buttons noted STOP and GO, and afterwards OPEN and CLOSE for a doors, anyway?
“Tube drivers, as tough as they competence work, are not rarely lerned professionals. You don’t need a grade to turn a tube driver, usually a integrate of GCSEs in Maths and English will suffice.”
You can read her full square here.
10.09: One highway that’s transparent of trade (supposedly)
This is curious. Google Maps, inevitably, shows lots of overload on London roads this morning (marked in red), though one – Waterloo Bridge – is presumably transparent of traffic. We consternation if that’s right or not…
Nonsense to contend that London has belligerent to a hindrance in today’s #tubestrike. Look, Waterloo Bridge is totally clear. pic.twitter.com/PyxV2fOi7R
— Yuan Potts (@YuanPotts)
August 6, 2015
10.03: You wait for one and afterwards zero come along…
This video shows a stage outward Victoria station, where hundreds of commuters are stranded in horrible queues for buses.
09.52: Double a overload on London’s roads
Red outlines a mark for prolonged delays on London’s roads, according to this map of overload this morning.
At 8.45am, there were 428 apart trade jams – causing 197 miles of tailbacks, according to trade experts during TomTom.
That is double a overload compared to a same time final Thursday, though not scarcely as bad as on a prior Tube strike on Jul 9, when there were 1,445 jams and 761 miles of delays.
Congestion on London roads due to a Tube strike (TomTom Traffic)
The many undiluted roads were around Parliament Square (delays of 48 minutes) and on a A40 from Wood Lane to Marylebone Road (30 minutes).
“With many Londoners divided on holiday and no propagandize runs, a roads were not as undiluted this morning as they were during a final strike 4 weeks ago,” pronounced a TomTom spokesman.
09.41: Controlling a crowds during Clapham Junction
Here are some some-more cinema from Clapham Junction, where military officers and staff aremed with loudhailers are handling a vast queues.
A sinecure executive and military officer conduct people entering Clapham Junction (PA)
People reserve to enter Clapham Junction sinecure (PA)
09.28: Queues turn a retard for buses during Victoria
This is a stage during Victoria station, where military officers are marshalling hundreds of people queuing for buses.
Earlier, Transport for London pronounced a numbers 16, 52 and 82 buses to Victoria were now interlude in Vauxhall Bridge Road given of overcrowding.
Police perplexing to conduct a queues building adult for buses during Victoria #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/53Cim97BVt
— Ashley Kirk (@Ashley_J_Kirk)
August 6, 2015
09.21: Barbecued burgers for breakfast
Union picket lines have been set adult around London, including this one during Queen’s Park where a Tube motorist has set adult a grill “kitchen” for inspired strikers.
Queen’s Park Picket Line kitchen is adult and running. Fueling inspired strikers. #TubeStrike #Aslef #RMT pic.twitter.com/M1RVHEmmhV
— ChoobDriver (@ChoobDriver)
August 6, 2015
09.16: Do we even need Tube drivers?
The Tube strike has again lifted a emanate of either a London Underground needs tellurian drivers – or if driverless Tube trains are a future. What do we think? Vote in a poll:
09.04: Odds on Night Tube start date
But what do a bookies say? Here are a latest contingency from Ladbrokes on when a initial Night Tube tour will be made.
September 12 – evens
September 13 or after – 8/11
No Night Tube journeys in 2015 – 4/1
Alex Donohue, from Ladbrokes, said: “When it comes to serve intrusion to a daytime use all bets are positively off. As such it’s now looking approaching a Night Tube is theme to delays with a intensity for a cessation all year.”
08.59: Boris ‘not fussed’ about Night Tube starting on time
London Mayor Boris Johnson is austere a Night Tube will be introduced in a collateral – but, after an ongoing conflict with a unions, he has now pronounced he is “not fussed” about a new use starting on time on Sep 12.
“I wish it starting in a autumn – what we am fussed about is a offer being put to kinship members,” he said. “I am not going to authorize any some-more money. Most people would recognize that this is a really inexhaustible deal. ”
08.53: Videos uncover large reserve during sheet barriers
Here are dual videos display a outrageous series of people perplexing to get by a sheet barriers during Clapham Junction:
Massive reserve during sheet barriers during Clapham Junction. #tubestrike @itvlondon pic.twitter.com/rYadEVI5m5
— Ruth Zorko (@RuthZorko)
August 6, 2015
And here’s a brief video of a joys of Clapham Junction this morning #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/xWG9odiAx3
— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford)
August 6, 2015
08.41: ‘Shocking organization during Clapham Junction’
Here are some some-more cinema taken a few moments ago during Clapham Junction, that seems to be a stage of some of a misfortune sinecure overcrowding so far.
Clapham Junction. Not even a Tube station. pic.twitter.com/BVBjd2PD5Y
— Mr Hits (@darrenjl)
August 6, 2015
Shocking organization during Clapham Junction rail sinecure today. Closing categorical opening and clueless staff. #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/YrfOUTeUll
— Deirdre Dowling (@deirdredowling)
August 6, 2015
Gotta #love a #tubestrike! #claphamjunction #morning #commute scarcely a weeekend! pic.twitter.com/aR9HQEgSy3
— Suzanne Alphonse (@suzannealphonse)
August 6, 2015
08.32: Huge queues during Clapham Junction
It’s destruction during Clapham Junction as hundreds of people are queuing in a sinecure itself to equivocate dangerous overcrowding, reports The Telegraph’s Deputy Political Editor Steven Swinford.
Although there isn’t a Tube line regulating to a station, delays are being compounded by a fact Clapham Junction is a UK’s busiest rotate station.
Hundreds reserve during Clapham Junction sinecure during a Tube strike (Steven Swinford)
08.24: Striking staff ‘watch on in joviality during gridlock’
Here are some cinema of distinguished Tube staff on picket lines in East Finchley – where they were described as “watching on in glee” during a gridlock – and Kings Cross, where one commuter pronounced they were outnumbered by TfL staff and military officers.
More TfL staff and military than picketing #tubestrike workers in justification during Kings Cross this morning pic.twitter.com/c3ZznrdVtf
— Graham Salisbury (@grahamsalisbury)
August 6, 2015
The strikers during a #aslef picket line easterly finchley watch on in joviality during a gridlock #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/H6BT4l3KTh
— Saskya Monchar (@xVIVIENNEx)
August 6, 2015
08.19: ‘Yeah, a buses are ruin today!’
But not everyone’s had a calamity invert into work. For these Twitter users, a tour was plain sailing…
London #TubeStrike day during rush hour pic.twitter.com/cZgZtUWrjx
— Lucinda Guthrie (@LGuthrie1)
August 6, 2015
@ek_winegirl yeah, a buses are ruin today! #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/1wswWmtSG9
— EviL Ras (@EviL_Ras)
August 6, 2015
#tubestrike appreciate we @LDNOverground we got a chair this morning pic.twitter.com/Wf3Cq7MGHU
— Zubair Munsif (@zebedee82)
August 6, 2015
08.14: ‘Thank we Tube strike for doubling my tour to work’
Commuters have been holding to Twitter to fury during a delays to their journeys caused by a strike:
Not even on a tube line that is sealed #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/8gft76yIAl
— Adam-Joshua Stenlake (@AJSten)
August 6, 2015
Pretty many been stranded here for a past 15 minutes. Thank we #tubestrike for doubling my tour time to work. pic.twitter.com/1WzKT5rJgI
— Loke Weng Yee (@wengyee6)
August 6, 2015
Absolutely raging.#tubestrike pic.twitter.com/XoDSgeFHba
— Ellie Mathews (@elliemathews1)
August 6, 2015
08.09: Overcrowding on buses during Victoria
VICTORIA BUS STATION, ROUTES 16 52 AND 82: Due to complicated newcomer loadings, these routes are terminating in Vauxhall Bridge Road instead
— TfL Bus Alerts (@TfLBusAlerts)
August 6, 2015
08.02: Extra places to collect adult Boris bikes
As thousands of Londoners take to dual wheels in a bid to kick a Tube strike, Transport for London has set adult 11 new sites where people can collect adult and lapse Boris bikes. Here’s a map display where they are:
Use @SantanderCycles to get to work during #Tubestrike. Our Pop-up Hubs will assistance we sinecure and lapse your bike pic.twitter.com/bbBEX07gB4
— Transport for London (@TfL)
August 6, 2015
07.56: ‘Thank God it’s holiday season’
This was a stage during a sight stops outward Victoria sinecure a few moments ago, where a queues are looking really orderly. “Thank God it’s not holiday season,” a Transport for London workman tells The Telegraph.
Queue for buses outward Victoria sinecure (Edward Adams)
07.47: Police assistance keep sequence in sight queues
Here are some some-more cinema usually reaching us of outrageous queues for buses this morning outward Stratford and Finsbury Park sations.
Police officers assistance keep sequence during Stratford sinecure (PA)
People reserve for a sight during Stratford station, in easterly London (PA)
People mount on a close sight from Finsbury Park sinecure (PA)
People mount on a close sight from Finsbury Park sinecure (PA)
07.34: ‘Why are we fast another tube strike?’
In box we missed it yesterday, here’s a video of The Telegraph’s Asa Bennett barbecuing Finn Brennan, a trainer of Tube drivers’ kinship Aslef – about a reasons behind a strike.
07.26: ‘No Tube? Just get a bus.’ Er, not quite…
Here’s a video shave from David Barrett, The Telegraph’s Home Affairs Correspondent who is travelling into a bureau by bus, that demonstrates to non-Londoners how a Tube strike works. He says:
This No. 11 sight from Liverpool Street filled adult during a really start of a lane when we boarded during about 6.15am. Several hundred some-more passengers were left behind to wish for another sight soon.
“Unless a newcomer who is already aboard wants to get off, drivers equivocate interlude during after sight stops to equivocate crushes (or fights).
“That means people have to usually watch their sight tour by, as happened here nearby St Paul’s Cathedral.”
07.22: The vanquish for buses starts
Metropolitan Police officers are out in force this morning assisting to keep sequence in a vanquish for buses – and some passengers are queuing in a some-more organized conform than others.
People during Stratford in East London onslaught to invert to work (Lee Thomas)
Passengers reserve for buses during Stratford, in easterly London (PA)
Police village support officers assistance marshall passengers in Stratford (PA)
07.11: ‘Suspended – use closed’
So this is a shade of many colours commuters are waking adult to this morning on a Transport for London website – and all of them indicate to one thing: it’s going to be a formidable tour into work for many.
07.06: Two wheels quicker than none?
And this commuter took to dual wheels in an try to kick a vanquish – regulating a scooter to navigate Oxford Circus.
A commuter uses a scooter to kick a 24-hour Tube strike in Oxford Circus (Reuters)
07.02: The good London exodus
As millions of Londoners make their approach into work though a Tube, here’s a discerning demeanour during how commuters done a lurch for a final Underground services final night before a network belligerent to a halt.
Glum faces on a Northern line (Reuters)
Commuters try to locate a final Tubes from Oxford Circus (Reuters)
Tube services are shutdown for a strike (EPA)
06.58: Hundreds of additional buses on London streets
Staff on a Docklands Light Railway, London Overground, a bus network, tram and TfL Rail services are not on strike.
These services will run as normal, though they will be many busier than common and people were strongly suggested to ride outward of a morning and dusk peaks.
TfL will have some-more than 600 “travel ambassadors” on palm to assistance Londoners, visitors and tourists get to their destinations on foot, by bus, bike or other means.
Around 250 additional buses are being supposing and there will be some-more stream services.
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06.50: How can we get around during a strike?
So what will a ride 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 regulating 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.
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 boats
The stream is a scenic alternative, if zero else, nonetheless we can design this to be bustling too. Extra services will be regulating between executive London and Canary Wharf and executive London and Putney.
Trams
A arise time use will be regulating 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 ride will be supposed on buses on reasonable choice routes
Travelcards will be supposed on a Emirates Air Line
Day Travelcards bought in allege for ride on Wednesday 5 or Thursday 6 Aug can be returned before a day of ride 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 ride 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 B