Here are some forthcoming dates for disruptions to the Tube in our area over the next few weeks:
ENGINEERING WORKS
VICTORIA LINE - NO SERVICE
Saturday 18th June – Kings Cross to Walthamstow Central
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th June – Brixton to Highbury & Islington
Saturday 2nd July - No Service on entire line!
PICCADILLY LINE – NO SERVICE
Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th July – Arnos Grove to Cockfosters
Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st July – Arnos Grove to Cockfosters
Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th August – Kings Cross to Cockfosters
Please note Saturday 18th June is the date of the London Feis 2011
Comments
Genius - some great forethought there!
My dad is one of Bob Crow's militant whingers! You've summed him up perfectly!
On more than one occassion, when he's been picketting out side the Wells Terrace entrace to the station, I've had to take the tube for a meeting and have skipped up to him say 'hello' and give him a hug, then skipped off down the tunnel to catch the Victoria line (it ALWAYS runs on strike days). He usually covers me in strike protest stickers before I make my escape.
I gate crashed one of their union meetings at the back room of the Twelve Pins once, when Iwas looking for my dad. It was a bit scary.
Sorry, people, carry on...
Tube strikes punish the poor. I spent six years in the service industry. If you can't get to work, you don't get paid. Now I have a middle-class job. I have the option of working from home. If I absolutely have to get down to the office, I can take a cab. My employer will reimburse me for it. For someone earning minimum wage, a return cab journey into central London can equal a day's wages.
Bob Crow should be ashamed of what he does. Instead, he gloats.
Zone 2 actually isn't that bad. I could walk to Russell Sq if I had to. But you try getting in from Zone 4 or 5 when there is not tube. Or from anywhere in South London, for that matter. That's where most poor people live.
I know that he (my dad) has had and continues to have masses of regular and rigorous H&S and customer saftey training (not disimilar in intesity or constant review to a friend who is a head trolly dolly for BA).
He's shared some pretty horric stories of crowd management and control during emergency evacuations of stations (fire, bomb threats etc), walking very panicked people from stuck trains along the tunnels, and of the medical assistance he's had to get on with when someone has fallen on the track/under a train/headfirst dowm the escalators/babies fingers stuck in escalator/passangers bottling each other...I could go on (but it makes me feel a bit queasy).
Anyway, he is a bit of a militant whinger, but I'd be grateful for his (or his colleagues) emergency assistance, should I ever need it.
He supervises the Piccadilly line, Manor House to Arnos Grove. He's the fella with the Belfast accent over the tannoy sometimes.
Families, eh?