28/04/2014 BBC London News


28/04/2014

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Good evening. A tube strike is underway tonight

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after talks between the RMT union and London Underground broke down

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earlier today without agreement. The first 48 hour walk`out began at nine

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o'clock this evening and will continue until Wednesday night.

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There's also a planned three day strike next week which begins on the

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evening of Bank Holiday Monday. The dispute is over plans to close

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ticket offices. Tonight the Mayor described the strike action as

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bonkers. Let's join our transport correspondent Tom Edwards who's

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outside Great Portland Street Station. The tube strike started 1.5

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hours ago and as you can see, it is already starting to bite. At this

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station they closed the doors ten minutes ago. We are already getting

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severe delays across other lines on the network. This has been a really

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eventful day. Here we go again. Talks this morning were always a

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long shot. After two hours they collapsed. Anything to report? We

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had a frank discussion with the leadership of the RMT. We made it

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clear that our proposals are just that, they remain on the table but

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we are up for genuine consultation. This is what London Underground

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wants, all ticket offices closed and staff in the ticket halls. It will

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get rid of 950 posts and save ?40 million a year. It will also mean

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restructuring the company. There will be no compulsory redundancies.

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Part of the plans means the number of local stations where staff work

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alone doubles to 125. While bosses say stations will always be staffed,

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expect more of this. At Goldthorpe Road station we could not find any.

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Late at night with no one here, that is not nice at all. I think it is

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trouble for somebody but for me it is fine. If you have problems

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getting through the barriers, who will help? It is not right. All

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unions are in consolidation on these plans but the RMT wants London

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Underground to halt the ticket office closures. It has concerns

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over safety. It says it would have suspended a strike if bosses had

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agreed to a public on saltation. What would you say? The strike will

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go ahead but we have tried our damnedest to persuade them to allow

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proper consultation, to allow the people of London and have their say,

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because this will mean a big, big impact, not only for the next couple

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of days but for the future of the tube network. With more strikes

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planned for next week, the chance of compromise looks slim. We are going

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to close 250 ticket offices, we will make them available for other

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functions. We will do fantastic things with our stations. Commuters

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are now facing two days of severe disruption with perhaps more next

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week. So Tom you mentioned next week's

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strike there ` what's your assessment of how this is going to

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end? What is really interesting of this hardening of the language from

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the Mayor and from London Underground. The Mayor has said we

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will shut 260 ticket offices, seemingly no room for compromise. It

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reminds me of the dispute in 2010 when they tried to reduce the number

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of ticket office opening hours. Then we had a lot of strikes but the

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changes still went through. This could be a very long ugly dispute

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for London and for Londoners. Thank you.

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So with the strike underway and for those trying to get around the

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capital tomorrow let's get a picture of how services are looking. We can

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cross to Alice Bhandhukravi who's got the latest. That is right. As we

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heard from Tom the tube is already affected but other forms of

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transport such as the DLR, London overground, tram link and National

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rail services are running as normal. Let's get to the nitty`gritty,

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tomorrow's morning commute, the tube network will be paralysed in places.

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There will be no service at all on the Circle Line or the Waterloo and

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City Line. There will be part closures across the rest of the

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network. It is important to remember that even when there is a particular

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line running, the trains will not necessarily be stopping at all the

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stations along the route. The Northern Line will have severe

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station closures. There will be no central or Piccadilly Line services

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through zone one. And finally we should mention Heathrow. Piccadilly

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Line trains will only be stopping at terminals one, two and three. We

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have also got the added problem of a separate strike on Heathrow express

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and Heathrow connect. That means getting to and from the airport will

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be very difficult indeed. Millions of commuters being affected ` what's

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being done to help commuters? Other services are being provided. There

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will be extra buses and riverboat services. They were really popular

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during the last strike. We are expecting things to return to normal

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for Thursday morning. Thank you. And of course we'll be keeping you

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up`to`date with all the latest travel information throughout the

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strikes. There are regular updates on our radio station BBC London

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94.9. You can also follow developments on our website and on

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Twitter. And we'll bring you the latest in our TV bulletins tomorrow

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morning during Breakfast. Let's see if the weather's going to

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be kind to commuters. I'll wish you a very goodnight and hand you over

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to Wendy for the forecast. Thank you. Good evening. Tonight

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will not be too much of a problem. There will be some cloud that filth

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in. There may be one or two showers here and there but mostly it will be

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a dry night will stop. The tomorrow morning's rush hour, it will be

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cloudy, mostly dry but with the risk of a shower. If you are prepared for

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a shower you will do nicely. It is not too chilly across London. As we

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go through the morning into the afternoon, I think London will hang

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on to some spells of sunshine and dry weather. There is the risk of

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getting one or two showers. They will be through Kent, Sussex and

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into Surrey. There will be some rumbles of thunder possible as well.

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For the evening commute as well, again there is the risk of a shower

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but it will not be a wash`out, hopefully for London. We have a

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similar sort of day on Wednesday. There will be some showers around. A

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spell of rain goes through on Thursday and then it will turn much

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cooler as we Thursday and then it will turn much

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cooler as we go into the bank holiday weekend.

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Hello, I am going to throw some numbers at you first of all. 22

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Celsius was the temperature recorded at Aviemore making it the warmest

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day of the year so far. At the other end of the country, this cloud has

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produced a

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