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Any of you southern, shandy drinking bastards affected by the Tube strike?

What do you reckon? Over-paid tunnel rats holding a city to ransom, or socialist heroes fighting the power?

Office is nice and quiet. The Motor Expo people must be pissed - a tube strike and it's been pissing it down all week.

I've never agreed with the fact that strike action is only available to those in certain critical jobs - everyone else just doesn't have access to that as a recourse. Also, Crow's an arsehole.

Workshy fucks.

My tube is fully operational.

Yes, that being said, so is mine.

A good portion of the workers don't believe in this strike action, so several lines are running okay.

My opinion is largely that Bob Crow is a cunt of the highest order. 5% and the promise of no redundancies? In a recession? With interest rates where they are?

Fucking hell, Bob, why not ask for the Moon on a Stick? The vast majority of people can't get even close to that kind of promise, and to strike because you don't get it in a week where other industries are laying off thousands of other jobs just makes him look like a blinkered, money grabbing idiot.

I've always hated him since one of the tube strikes was over the sacking of a man found guilty of gross misconduct by taking most of a year off work with an injury that didn't exist. How the hell can they defend that?

*shakes fist*

That said, it doesn't affect me, as I live in the one part of central london with no tube anyway. Although, I did have to get the DLR back from the city this morning as cabbies wouldn't struggle through the traffic to the wharf.

My whole team has made it in. Only department of the firm which has achieved that. I'm going to give the credit to my superb management skills.

Riles' hat. Today

The ferries were five deep at Canary Wharf this morning. A traffic jam on the motherfucking river, FFFS!

It's because you rule over them with a rod of IRON.

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I got it. I've got it!

I'm down tomorrow so should be fun if there's nothing between St P's and Victoria! Although a 4 mile walk is always a nice way to start the day! *cough*

Get the ferry from Blackfriars Pier (right near St. Pauls) to Westminster Millennium Pier and then get the 11, 211 or 148 to Victoria (or just walk the last .75 of a mile).

Thanks for the info Grim... I actually meant St Pancras, as I'm a tard at spelling I shortened it. I think I should be OK if the same tubes stay open as they are today.

They're paid twice the national average wage for the world's easiest job and were offered 5 years guaranteed above inflation rises.

They should have bit TFL's hand off.

Worse, starting the strike at 7pm, in the middle of the rush is cuntery of the finest order.

I can actually get a tube home too though, I think most have realised how pathetic this one is, apparently Crow is now holding them to ransom over a thief and someone who was sacked for trying to let all the passengers out onto a live line.

Don't forget that the England match at Wembley tonight is going to be a fucking nightmare to get to.

Don't forget there is an England game at Wembley today. On top of no tube the Chiltern railway trains have said they aren' going to stop after midday at Wembley due to 'safety concerns'. Midday?? the game kicks off at 7:45!!

Apart from the risk of occasionally killing some selfish twat. Although, to be far to you Duds, they don't have to lift a finger to actually do it.

(In fact, I think they have to lift a finger to not do it.)

Jubbly Line is running, so a fair few should be able to get there.

Where does that stop? Wembley Park station will be closed apparently.

Chiltern are a bunch of wusses.

Didn't they stop selling tickets to the football as soon as they heard about the proposed tube strike?

Mammary Lane?

The station is closed.

AFAIK the Wembley Park Jubbly Line station won't be closed.

It does seem that way. That's not what they were saying on the radio this morning.

What about Chesticles Road?

How about Wembley Perk?

Yup but that's still 70,000 people with both major transport interchanges missing.

Fair enough - I had no idea what the actual figures of tickets sold was.

They are offering refunds for people that don't want to come, and opening the gates way early, so Wembley are doing everything they can.

Apparently, a tube strike costs London £2,000,000 an hour. Cor.

Funcushions Drive?

If it is that important, then funding it to the tune of £1,000,000 an hour should give you a damned good service.

I'd imagine they do, don't they? Easily.

[edit]Oh, per hour - maybe not.

1,000,000 x 24 x 365 = 8,760,000,000.

Unless my maths is out, £8.76bn.

I bet it's more than £1,000,000 a day, though. Nothing online seems happy to give up the numbers involved.

£39bn over ten years.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/n ... /7386.aspx

Do they get the cash from the consumer on top of that, or is that already included in the 39bn?

The way I read it, I think it's on top. "Grant Funding" can't include ticket sales, can it?

Even so, that's £4bill a year, so roughly £500,000 per hour. Fuck me.

That is TfL, which is buses and the Tube. And presumably lots of other things as well.

I would do for £500,000 per hour!

True that. But still, £500,000 per hour to make London's public transport go? That's a shit load of cash, man.

[edit]@Plissken obviously.

Shit load of it though.

£0.5m per hour for a system where if 50% of it doesn't work it costs £2m a hour. That is a 3x profit margin. Not bad at all.

And that's without including fares, it seems.

I suspect the cost is the made up cost of people not getting to work etc.

Yeah, I guess.

For £500,000 an hour, I would give piggybacks to everyone in London. I'd only have to last a couple of minutes to earn more than I would in a year at this job.

When can I start?

Seems to suggest fares income (again, across the network) is in the order of £3bn pa.

That. Is. So. Much. Money.

6% of the NHS.