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Post by alece10 on Mar 3, 2022 12:29:44 GMT
Yes that's happened to me too. I now walk through the barriers deliberately slowly to stop it happening. Stratford is just as bad - groups of staff members standing around chatting and doing nothing else! It was particularly infuriating during the pandemic seeing how many of them were incapable of complying with their own employer's mask rules. If I saw anything to make me feel they are in any way short changed for the job they do, I might have some sympathy for the strikes, but that just isn't the reality. The proportional response to a negative experience at a tube station is to raise a complaint and give the staff a chance to make the situation better rather than cherrypick it as justification for your unilateral condemnation of a network of literally thousands of employees of dozens of different positions. Claiming that your extraordinarily limited, and shamelessly biased and pre-judged, experience of tube stations is "the reality" is incredibly arrogant. If you, and the others in this thread sharing similar views, are so certain that TFL staff are grossly overpaid and overcompensated compared to the work they actually do, what exactly is stopping you from resigning the post you currently have and taking one of these ultra-cushy jobs in TFL? tfl.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobsearch.ftl?lang=enThanks for saying I am "incredibly arrogant". Thats nice 😀 |
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Post by adrianics on Mar 3, 2022 12:47:47 GMT
That specific comment was aimed at poster j rather than you, but yes, the tone of yours and theirs conversation was arrogant.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2022 13:47:33 GMT
I guess several of you have heard of "ad hominem" but thought it was Latin for a commercial for grits.
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Post by Jon on Mar 3, 2022 18:29:18 GMT
I find it odd that you rarely get strikes on other TfL services like the DLR, Overground, Trams etc let’s hope the Elizabeth Line won’t have any issue when it eventually launches
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Post by sph on Mar 3, 2022 23:23:05 GMT
I find it odd that you rarely get strikes on other TfL services like the DLR, Overground, Trams etc let’s hope the Elizabeth Line won’t have any issue when it eventually launches Oh yes, the bus drivers will still be doing their routes during actual Armageddon! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2022 7:03:31 GMT
I find it odd that you rarely get strikes on other TfL services like the DLR, Overground, Trams etc let’s hope the Elizabeth Line won’t have any issue when it eventually launches Oh yes, the bus drivers will still be doing their routes during actual Armageddon! Having walked home in the rain with a seven year old on Tuesday (Marylebone to Hackney) that tube strike felt like the apocalypse. I had always thought the buses wouldn’t be bumper to bumper on the Euston Road when the world ends…I was wrong. |
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Post by mhumphries on Jul 20, 2023 19:05:35 GMT
Ahhh! This crap again!
The three days I'm in London next week, bloody tube strike each day and I'm booked out in a Travelodge at Wembley to save a bit of cash so I'll have to rely on buses.
I'm screwed, totally screwed!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2023 20:08:14 GMT
Yep rail strikes today and Saturday will have screwed up hell of a lot of theatre goers too and performers/crew from touring shows who might want to get a late train home.
I may not agree with a lot of unions philosophies but if they can strike and really show how much people rely on their services then fair play to them.
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Post by londonpostie on Jul 21, 2023 6:38:47 GMT
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Post by Dave B on Jul 21, 2023 6:47:11 GMT
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Post by londonpostie on Jul 21, 2023 6:57:23 GMT
"Little service" Tues to Thursday?
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Post by cavocado on Jul 21, 2023 8:01:51 GMT
"Little service" Tues to Thursday? I don't know if the TFL website has changed overnight but it now says 'no tube service expected' on Wed and Fri, 'little or no tube service' on Tues and Thurs. |
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Post by londonpostie on Jul 21, 2023 8:18:15 GMT
I guess it has or will change. TfL never really knows until the day when they see who turns up, though they assume - based on past strike days - a certain amount.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Jul 21, 2023 10:30:06 GMT
Ahhh! This crap again! The three days I'm in London next week, bloody tube strike each day and I'm booked out in a Travelodge at Wembley to save a bit of cash so I'll have to rely on buses. I'm screwed, totally screwed! If it's Travelodge Wembley Central the Overland trains will be running (although probably mad busy) - Euston to Wembley Central, Travelodge literally above the Station (which you probably know). Other routes - Thameslink (Farringdon etc) to Hendon Overground, cross the road and a number 83 bus to Wembley High Road. Chiltern Rail from Marylebone to Wembley Stadium and a 15-20 minute walk (or that 83 bus again, don't cross the road). Make sure it stops at Wembley Stadium though! I was booked for next Friday night after another Groundhog Day at the Wembley Park Premier Inn, but I've changed it to Travelodge Waterloo. |
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Post by n1david on Jul 21, 2023 10:52:47 GMT
Relax, everyone!
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Post by Dave B on Jul 21, 2023 10:55:07 GMT
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Post by cavocado on Jul 21, 2023 11:06:52 GMT
Good news for now, but maybe BurlyBeaR it would be worth taking the dates off this thread title as I'm sure this topic will come up again. |
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Post by maggiem on Jul 21, 2023 11:16:36 GMT
Ahhh! This crap again! The three days I'm in London next week, bloody tube strike each day and I'm booked out in a Travelodge at Wembley to save a bit of cash so I'll have to rely on buses. I'm screwed, totally screwed! Same here (possibly). Managed to dodge the train strikes by travelling on Tuesday and Friday, then got shafted by the bloody Tube strikes! However, I'm not going to admit defeat! I have been having a good look on TFL's website for buses to get me from Euston to Paddington (my digs) and then to the places I want to go (Leicester Square area mainly, but Tower Bridge for the theatre will be a bit tricky). Tuesday and Thursday I will also be travelling at early evening rush hour, but the rest of the time I may be okay. It would help a bit if we knew which lines are shut on which days, as I read this was a "rolling" programme of shutdowns. I'm just not sure if the Elizabeth Line will be of any use as I would need it to/from stations that are on the underground network. EDITED- didn't read all of the posts above! I've also seen the confirmation of the strikes being called off on the BBC news website now. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 21, 2023 12:55:27 GMT
Strikes off
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Post by mhumphries on Jan 3, 2024 22:53:22 GMT
Ahhh! This crap again! The three days I'm in London next week, bloody tube strike each day and I'm booked out in a Travelodge at Wembley to save a bit of cash so I'll have to rely on buses. I'm screwed, totally screwed! For the love of Mormon not again! What is it with me and picking the week to a trip to London and there ends up being a tube strike for the third time. Wembley booked again and this time in the middle of 5 f***ing days of it! Train to Euston and walking distant theatres it is then. |
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Post by Mark on Jan 3, 2024 23:22:49 GMT
Hope they get called off again otherwise it’s gonna be a pretty miserable week for London travel.
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Post by jek on Jan 4, 2024 11:16:45 GMT
Elizabeth Line seems to be running - except for after 10.30 pm on the Wednesday, when it will not call at Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon, Liverpool Street or Whitechapel.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 7, 2024 17:39:42 GMT
Tube strike suspended.
Thank goodness.
Was not looking forward to trying to get to work this week.
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Post by partytentdown on Jan 7, 2024 17:47:33 GMT
Only after hundreds of people have cancelled their tickets for the week, once again the theatre industry gets screwed over.
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Post by showgirl on Jan 7, 2024 18:38:48 GMT
Yup, I was one of those and too late now to re-book as run ends in a week and I had a great seat as I'd booked months ago.
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