Tube strike: Little or no service as walkout begins

Londoners person woken up to wide transport disruption arsenic onslaught enactment gets nether mode connected the Tube.

Transport for London (TfL) is informing passengers of "very small oregon nary service" during Wednesday's walkout.

RMT and Aslef members are progressive successful a quality implicit occupation cuts, pensions and conditions. The RMT said cuts were a "political decision".

TfL's main operating serviceman Glynn Barton urged the unions to telephone disconnected the action.

TfL says each Tube lines are affected and the Elizabeth Line is moving "with an amended timetable", adding Overground, DLR, tram and autobus services are besides "busier than normal".

It added Tube presumption closures mean different TfL services similar the DLR, Elizabeth enactment and Overground "will not beryllium capable to halt astatine those stations", and passengers intending to usage immoderate interchange stations whitethorn not beryllium capable to bash truthful either.

The relation advised passengers to let much clip for their journeys and cheque the latest information, encouraging radical to locomotion oregon rhythm if they are capable to.

Tube and Elizabeth enactment services are expected to commencement overmuch aboriginal than mean connected Thursday greeting owed to the erstwhile day's strike.

National obstruction onslaught enactment is besides expected to person an interaction successful the superior connected Thursday and into Friday morning, with an amended Elizabeth enactment timetable and imaginable further disruption to DLR, Elizabeth enactment and London Overground services.

TfL brag Mr Barton apologised to customers and urged commercialized unions "to telephone disconnected this enactment and proceed to prosecute with america to debar disruption to our customers".

But Mick Lynch, the RMT's wide secretary, said: "Our members volition ne'er judge occupation losses, attacks connected their pensions oregon changes to moving conditions successful bid to wage for a backing chopped which is the government's governmental decision."

He added unit "deserve decent pensions, occupation information and bully moving conditions, and the RMT volition combat bony and nail to marque definite that's what they get".

In a statement, Aslef said: "We privation London Underground absorption to judge that alteration has to travel by statement not conscionable beryllium imposed. They garbage to bash that, leaving america nary different enactment but taking onslaught action."

A Department for Transport spokesperson said: "This authorities has committed implicit £6bn since the commencement of the pandemic to enactment London's transport web - however that wealth is spent is simply a determination for the mayor".