Today's Tube Strike

[mikey4444]

I can remember the Tube strikes in the summer of 1989. I was staying in a hotel in Russell Square ( courtesy of my employer, BT ! ) and working in a large Telephone Exchange behind Harrods. I was much younger, fitter and slimmer in those days, so I just walked to work and back, through Hyde Park, and rather enjoyed it.

Nowadays,, I am not sure what I would do....I certainly couldn't walk all that way now.

How have our AB'rs that have to work in Town been managing today ?

[Patsy33]

My daughter had to walk from Kings Cross to New Barnet. Poor thing didn't have much sleep either last night due to her 23 month old crying for two hours between 2-4! Hopefully she works from home tomorrow.Such a pain these days for people..

[Islay]

in my younger days I cycled from Seven Sisters to Blackfriars, I have also got a bus to the tower and then caught the river taxi which was free up to Parliament square.

[rockyracoon]

The traffic getting into work this morning was very bad, and I just have to go on the outskirts, it must have been a complete nightmare further into London.

[mikey4444]

I used the Rivertaxi in the 80's as well......lovely catamarans, with a wonderful view as you went down the river.

[New Judge]

I worked in Central London for more than 30 years and know it extremely well.

I commuted into one of the Southern termini (my arrival point depended on what trains were running that day!). I had to make my way across London to the north of the Central zone and usually went by tube. Tube strike days were very amusing. I usually made my onward journey by a mixture of Shank’s Pony and buses. Many people who regularly used the tube obviously had no idea whatsoever where they were when forced to travel on the surface. Many a time I had been heading north up Whitehall to Trafalgar Square only to be confronted by a distressed commuter heading south who had arrived at Charing Cross, asking me how much further it was to Oxford Street!

“My daughter had to walk from Kings Cross to New Barnet. “

Er..why. She could have got a Great Northern suburban train. They run about every 20 minutes or so. New Barnet station is about halfway between the two tube stations at High Barnet and Cockfosters.