Tube strikes

[collyrob]

Load of bollocks. I’m bringing the kids over on the Monday for a concert. 

is there any chance this strike won’t go ahead? 

does the overground still run? 

[Westham67]

TOUCH DLR open on the 10th September flying LCY to Rome 16 50

[violator]

Kneecap must be doing some Irish dates?

[Nutsin]

Love this thread.

We have a raging liberal experiencing all the benefits of a liberal Gov’t.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke!

ag ag ag!

Fuck your Gov’t and fuck your concert!

[Bungo]

Do you have to stay in Victoria?

If there is anywhere available a bit nearer, it could at least make getting to and from the gig a bit simpler?

I absolutely never do this. But unfortunately I booked and paid for a non refundable hotel. I’ll just have to get a bus towards the overground and jump on that to WHL

Damn, although as GSS suggested, staying closer to Tottenham would likely be a double edged sword!

[BerlingtonBertie]

Enough Indians  - are tuk tuk’s available in black Britain?

[collyrob]

Do you have to stay in Victoria?

If there is anywhere available a bit nearer, it could at least make getting to and from the gig a bit simpler?

I absolutely never do this. But unfortunately I booked and paid for a non refundable hotel. I’ll just have to get a bus towards the overground and jump on that to WHL

[Bungo]

Do you have to stay in Victoria?

If there is anywhere available a bit nearer, it could at least make getting to and from the gig a bit simpler?

A nice Airbnb on the Broadwater farm estate maybe if the gigs in Tottenham.

Interesting use of the word 'nice'.

[Gary Strodders shank]

I have a couple of mates who work on the maintenance side 
One is a manger and the other a troubleshooter they have both been there years and are with add ones and overtime both on in excess of £100k a year and have a great pension pot for when they finally retire.

They tell me that despite the money the job pays TFL struggle to recruit replacements with the required skills and common sense to adequately replace long serving employees which I guess is a sad indictment on the state of the labour market today.

I have other friends working again mainly on maintenance and they too are never short of a few quid or a day off.

Public sympathy if indeed there is any will soon diminish if these strikes go ahead and disrupt peoples lives for the best part of a week.



 

[Gary Strodders shank]

Do you have to stay in Victoria?

If there is anywhere available a bit nearer, it could at least make getting to and from the gig a bit simpler?

A nice Airbnb on the Broadwater farm estate maybe if the gigs in Tottenham.

[Mike Oxsaw]

West Ham have a hotel attached to their home ground, do they not?

[Bungo]

Do you have to stay in Victoria?

If there is anywhere available a bit nearer, it could at least make getting to and from the gig a bit simpler?

[Fauxstralian]

BBC local news saying talks broke down yesterday so looks like strikes likely to go ahead.
On a work basis looks like next Monday to Thursday are fucked & usually means there is a late start on the Friday
Obviously the ability to WFH for a lot of people makes it a bit easier to deal with

[collyrob]

Load of bollocks. I’m bringing the kids over on the Monday for a concert. 

is there any chance this strike won’t go ahead? 

does the overground still run? 

Where’s the concert, and where are you travelling from (roughly)?

The Underground is one of many ways to get around, and to be honest Uber’s can be reasonable. 

I don’t like buses, but they are frequent and will get you to where you’re going, and if all else fails, hire a car. 

staying in Victoria, concert is in Tottenham *spits*

[XKhammer]

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/how ... kes-082925

[XKhammer]

Load of bollocks. I’m bringing the kids over on the Monday for a concert. 

is there any chance this strike won’t go ahead? 

does the overground still run? 

Where’s the concert, and where are you travelling from (roughly)?

The Underground is one of many ways to get around, and to be honest Uber’s can be reasonable. 

I don’t like buses, but they are frequent and will get you to where you’re going, and if all else fails, hire a car. 

Uber prices will go through the roof on strike days,traffic will be horrendous so you're better off walking/cycling 

[Mad Ferret]

Even the DLR cunts are at it this time. Good job I'm off work for most of next week, otherwise that would affect me significantly. 

50k+ a year for occasionally checking people's tickets and making the odd announcement on the PA. Cushiest job in TfL.

[zico]

These buggers seem to do it every year. 

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I genuinely wonder if they are diarised some time in advance, the regularity is so predictable...

Just as the kids go back to school, or just when they break up it seems!  What I find odd is that they strike because of conditions and pay, get a deal they are happy with and a year later they are striking again over conditions and pay.  What changes in a year apart from greed?

[Bungo]

These buggers seem to do it every year. 

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I genuinely wonder if they are diarised some time in advance, the regularity is so predictable...

[zico]

These buggers seem to do it every year.  Think the paying customers must have strike "fatigue" by now!  Overground and Underground did it when we were off to a concert at the Albert Hall a couple of years back.  The ticket insurance didn't cover strikes and the concert couldn't move dates so we ended up driving up and staying at the Copthorne Hotel at Chelsea's football ground, the only possible way we could make it.  Hated driving in London and the cost of the hotel was a bugger but at least the concert was worth it. 

[Pub Bigot]

Load of bollocks. I’m bringing the kids over on the Monday for a concert. 

is there any chance this strike won’t go ahead? 

does the overground still run? 

Where’s the concert, and where are you travelling from (roughly)?

The Underground is one of many ways to get around, and to be honest Uber’s can be reasonable. 

I don’t like buses, but they are frequent and will get you to where you’re going, and if all else fails, hire a car. 

[Fauxstralian]

Tube strikes are often cancelled a day or two before but no sign of it
I see Coldplay have shifted two of their Wembley concerts because of strike days

Was reading the strike is over pay & FATIGUE
Am certainly tired of these work shy cunts

[Bungo]

Load of bollocks. I’m bringing the kids over on the Monday for a concert. 

is there any chance this strike won’t go ahead? 

does the overground still run? 

Overground is still here but has been 'rebranded' with several different names. Link below.

Good luck!

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/london-overgro ... tcmp=75267

[Vexed]

I thought it was the bus wankers striking next week and the scabby tube wankers the week after.