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Old January 9th 06, 10:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Current strike (8/9) - experiences


Chris! wrote:
Has anyone had any problems since the current strike started?

At 8pm in South Kensington there seemed to be more staff than usual.
Five or so very friendly staff members were at the entrance to the
ticket barriers next to a sign saying the station will stay open as
usual until 0015. And the District line was running fine.


As far as the RMT strike goes, my day's tube travelling has been
marginally better than usual, if anything.

Northern Line was a bit crap this morning, but that's due to unrelated
"unofficial action" by their drivers. (Ironically, whilst the RMT
leadership fails once more to organise a successful strike over
spurious "safety concerns", Northern Line drivers walk out in defense
of a driver who fell asleep and drove a train at 29mph through a 5mph
speed limit.)

Travel on other lines (Jubilee, Victoria) went very smoothly. So, in
summary, I would say that the RMT strike has had no negative effect
whatsoever on my experience of the tube today. In fact, a couple of
station closures sped up my journey a bit.

Once again it is abundantly clear that the vast majority of the RMT
membership is not interested in supporting these latest pointless
strikes. Good on them.