Tube Strike

[Ladygooner]

Looks like it is going ahead tonight at 6pm for 72 hours. They are advising that everyone completes their journey by 5pm. Yippee leaving work early!

[georgia]

Hmm think I'll go to the pub until the rush hour is well and truly over....

[ClareC]

ED doesnt have a tube ;-)

[BarryRoad]

Don't tell my boss that!

[Jeremy]

Yes, ED doesn't have a tube station... therefore nobody who lives in ED uses the tube to get to/from work! Yes, that makes sense! I don't know what I was getting so worked up about!

[Ladygooner]

Some of us have to get the tube from London Bridge to work

[Floating Onion]

Well the Nothern line was still running into London Bridge. Just rammed as per usual.

[Doodles]

Oh ?, need to be at Euston by quarter to nine tomorrow. Guess I?d best get the bust from Forest Hill Rd, think it?s a 63?, and walk from Kings Cross.

Any idea how long it will take?

Should I leave soon?

[Marmora Man]

Doodles Wrote:

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> Oh ?, need to be at Euston by quarter to nine

> tomorrow. Guess I?d best get the bust from Forest

> Hill Rd, think it?s a 63?, and walk from Kings

> Cross.

>

> Any idea how long it will take?

>

> Should I leave soon?

No. 63 to Kings X - approx 60 minutes if you catch one before 8.00am - after that can add a further 10 - 20 mins to journey times.

[Nero]

I am SO please I don't live on Tube route, though I know that some of us on the forum have to use a mixture of transport. Buses are the new tube, cyles are the new buses and walking is the new cycling. Nero

[Doodles]

Thanks MM. Looks like an early start for me....

[Ladygooner]

Pleased to report Jubilee Line seems to be running well although very overcrowded..........

[SeanMacGabhann]

Plenty more flaneurs-by-proxy out and about between Elephant&Castle and Tower Bridge this morning

Apart from the odd gobshite who feels his consumer rights have been violated, I think it actually makes people more pleasant as they have to think outside the box and realise that (f'rinstance) no-one needs to pay to go down several floors, wait for a tube at Picadilly Circus and then change at Leicester Sq when they can just walk 70 yards

[Ladygooner]

Blimey Sean - had to look up "flaneurs"!

[SeanMacGabhann]

no such problem with "gobshite" then? ;-)

[Marmora Man]

Ladygooner Wrote:

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> Pleased to report Jubilee Line seems to be running

> well although very overcrowded..........

This afternoon it was hellish - with most people under the impression that my carriage was actually the Tardis with infinitely expandable space inside despite the evident crush. Stopping for 15 mins outside Westminster added to the fun.