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Good evening. Talks aimed at resolving the Tube dispute are to be | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
held on Friday, but the strike will still continue tomorrow meaning more | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
disruption for millions of Londoners. The 48`hour walk`out will | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
end tomorrow night with another strike planned for next week. Tom | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Edwards reports. A miserable commute home for many | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
this evening after an equally miserable trip into work. It is fair | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
enough to strike, but it makes things a bit harder. There were | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
queues at Baker Street just before seven. No Tube, but the buses were | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
already busy. There are twice more people than usual. There were also | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
queues at Stanmore. London Underground had promised some | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
services. Slowly some services did start to run. This was the Victoria | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
line, but 80 stations did not open at all. Everyone was arguing. There | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
were a picket lines from the two unions whose members walked out The | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
unions claim the system was dangerously overcrowded in places. | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
But crowd control measures are in place. At London Bridge some | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
commuters wanted tougher action from the Mayor as he met with TfL | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
ambassadors. They were staff members volunteering to help. Have you | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
oversold the level of service? You had big queues at 7am. We have got | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
eight out of 11 lines running and I want to thank very much everybody | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
who has turned up. Thank you very much for what you are doing for | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
London. I urge everyone else to come and help out. It will be a tough | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
day. The unions claimed only a skeleton service was running. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Everyone in London knows there is a problem with the Mayor not talking | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
to trade unions. Everyone in London knows there is a problem regarding | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
industrial relations with London Underground. What they should have | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
done is dealt with this far differently. Commuters have mixed | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
feelings about the strike. There are different ways to sort out a dispute | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
and it is down to dialogue and people talking. Talks have not | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
progressed in the way they could have done. The roads were much | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
busier and there were more cyclists and at my learned buses were full | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
and not able to stop. Six buses have passed so far. This was the cue for | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
the 139 bus. And on the river the birds were also much busier. They | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
started at 6am this morning with the first sailing. The bad news for | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
commuters is they will have to face all of this again tomorrow. Tom is | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
at Warren Street station. What chance is there of ending this | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
dispute at the talks on Friday? There has been movement. ACAS have | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
confirmed those jobs will go ahead on Friday. We have been here | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
before, the issues are still the same. The RMT union said its | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
negotiators are ready to enter exploratory talks. In the meantime, | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
the current action continues. In the last 30 minutes Transport for London | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
has said, why wait until Friday Meet us tomorrow and suspend the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
strike. I do not think that will happen, but it could be more | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
promising for the plant Tube strikes next week. Today the Prime Minister | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
condemned the strike and Number Ten has said it is looking closely at | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
plans to declare London Underground an essential service to curb the | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
threat of future strikes. Karl Mercer has more. | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
On a day like today you might expect weary Londoners to have a less than | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
charitable view of the union whose action has led to scenes like this. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
But people were taking leaflets from the strikers and plenty had sympathy | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
with their cause, if not everyone. We are not against you, but you do | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
not strike in today's world. A lot of people are suffering. They should | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
be more consultation with the union about employment changes. At Prime | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Minister 's question time there was no sitting on the fence. There is no | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
justification for a strike. We need a modernised Tube line working for | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
the millions of Londoners who use it every day. Downing Street said this | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
was unacceptable and we were told the Prime Minister is looking | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
seriously at plans to label the London underground as an essential | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
service which in the future would mean they would have to provide a | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
minimum level of service. The mass transit system has fallen silent and | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
all of this over a dispute over pay and conditions. In New York the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
subway has only had three strikes in its history because strikes are not | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
allowed. Tonight, the Business Secretary told BBC London he | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
disagreed with changing the law There are many essential services | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
and London Tube is one and there are the police, hospitals and others who | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
would qualify as an essential service. Changing industrial | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
relations law to deal with one particular strike is a bad idea | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Conservative sources said today they were considering a range of options | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
that may be included in their next election manifesto. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
Wendy has got the weather and it was not kind to commuters today. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
Not at all. It has at least stopped raining. The winds will be using a | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
touch as well, but at the moment they are still quite blustery. It is | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
largely dry with clear skies and temperatures between four and six | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
degrees. A bright start to tomorrow, with a noticeable breeze. Then it | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
will start raining from the south and it probably will not stop for 18 | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
hours. There is an amber weather warning in Berkshire, Sussex and | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Kent. By the end of Thursday we could have had another two inches of | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
rain. After that it clears away and there is an interlude on Friday but | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
it turned stormy over the weekend. You can get the latest travel | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
information every 15 minutes on your local radio and we will keep you up | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
to date on the bulletins in breakfast. | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
As you have just heard, the little respite between one storm system and | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
another and it is that cumulative effect which will cause further | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
problems in the coming days with risks of flooding and further damage | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
and destruction. This area | :07:54. | :07:54. |