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Good evening. A tube strike is underway tonight | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
after talks between the RMT union and London Underground broke down | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
earlier today without agreement. The first 48 hour walk`out began at nine | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
o'clock this evening and will continue until Wednesday night. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
There's also a planned three day strike next week which begins on the | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
evening of Bank Holiday Monday. The dispute is over plans to close | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
ticket offices. Tonight the Mayor described the strike action as | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
bonkers. Let's join our transport correspondent Tom Edwards who's | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
outside Great Portland Street Station. The tube strike started 1.5 | :00:43. | :00:55. | |
hours ago and as you can see, it is already starting to bite. At this | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
station they closed the doors ten minutes ago. We are already getting | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
severe delays across other lines on the network. This has been a really | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
eventful day. Here we go again. Talks this morning were always a | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
long shot. After two hours they collapsed. Anything to report? We | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
had a frank discussion with the leadership of the RMT. We made it | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
clear that our proposals are just that, they remain on the table but | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
we are up for genuine consultation. This is what London Underground | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
wants, all ticket offices closed and staff in the ticket halls. It will | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
get rid of 950 posts and save ?40 million a year. It will also mean | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
restructuring the company. There will be no compulsory redundancies. | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
Part of the plans means the number of local stations where staff work | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
alone doubles to 125. While bosses say stations will always be staffed, | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
expect more of this. At Goldthorpe Road station we could not find any. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Late at night with no one here, that is not nice at all. I think it is | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
trouble for somebody but for me it is fine. If you have problems | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
getting through the barriers, who will help? It is not right. All | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
unions are in consolidation on these plans but the RMT wants London | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Underground to halt the ticket office closures. It has concerns | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
over safety. It says it would have suspended a strike if bosses had | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
agreed to a public on saltation. What would you say? The strike will | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
go ahead but we have tried our damnedest to persuade them to allow | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
proper consultation, to allow the people of London and have their say, | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
because this will mean a big, big impact, not only for the next couple | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
of days but for the future of the tube network. With more strikes | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
planned for next week, the chance of compromise looks slim. We are going | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
to close 250 ticket offices, we will make them available for other | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
functions. We will do fantastic things with our stations. Commuters | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
are now facing two days of severe disruption with perhaps more next | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
week. So Tom you mentioned next week's | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
strike there ` what's your assessment of how this is going to | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
end? What is really interesting of this hardening of the language from | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
the Mayor and from London Underground. The Mayor has said we | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
will shut 260 ticket offices, seemingly no room for compromise. It | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
reminds me of the dispute in 2010 when they tried to reduce the number | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
of ticket office opening hours. Then we had a lot of strikes but the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
changes still went through. This could be a very long ugly dispute | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
for London and for Londoners. Thank you. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
So with the strike underway and for those trying to get around the | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
capital tomorrow let's get a picture of how services are looking. We can | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
cross to Alice Bhandhukravi who's got the latest. That is right. As we | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
heard from Tom the tube is already affected but other forms of | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
transport such as the DLR, London overground, tram link and National | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
rail services are running as normal. Let's get to the nitty`gritty, | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
tomorrow's morning commute, the tube network will be paralysed in places. | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
There will be no service at all on the Circle Line or the Waterloo and | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
City Line. There will be part closures across the rest of the | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
network. It is important to remember that even when there is a particular | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
line running, the trains will not necessarily be stopping at all the | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
stations along the route. The Northern Line will have severe | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
station closures. There will be no central or Piccadilly Line services | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
through zone one. And finally we should mention Heathrow. Piccadilly | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
Line trains will only be stopping at terminals one, two and three. We | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
have also got the added problem of a separate strike on Heathrow express | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
and Heathrow connect. That means getting to and from the airport will | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
be very difficult indeed. Millions of commuters being affected ` what's | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
being done to help commuters? Other services are being provided. There | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
will be extra buses and riverboat services. They were really popular | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
during the last strike. We are expecting things to return to normal | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
for Thursday morning. Thank you. And of course we'll be keeping you | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
up`to`date with all the latest travel information throughout the | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
strikes. There are regular updates on our radio station BBC London | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
94.9. You can also follow developments on our website and on | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Twitter. And we'll bring you the latest in our TV bulletins tomorrow | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
morning during Breakfast. Let's see if the weather's going to | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
be kind to commuters. I'll wish you a very goodnight and hand you over | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
to Wendy for the forecast. Thank you. Good evening. Tonight | :06:12. | :06:24. | |
will not be too much of a problem. There will be some cloud that filth | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
in. There may be one or two showers here and there but mostly it will be | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
a dry night will stop. The tomorrow morning's rush hour, it will be | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
cloudy, mostly dry but with the risk of a shower. If you are prepared for | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
a shower you will do nicely. It is not too chilly across London. As we | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
go through the morning into the afternoon, I think London will hang | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
on to some spells of sunshine and dry weather. There is the risk of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
getting one or two showers. They will be through Kent, Sussex and | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
into Surrey. There will be some rumbles of thunder possible as well. | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
For the evening commute as well, again there is the risk of a shower | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
but it will not be a wash`out, hopefully for London. We have a | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
similar sort of day on Wednesday. There will be some showers around. A | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
spell of rain goes through on Thursday and then it will turn much | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
cooler as we Thursday and then it will turn much | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
cooler as we go into the bank holiday weekend. | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Hello, I am going to throw some numbers at you first of all. 22 | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Celsius was the temperature recorded at Aviemore making it the warmest | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
day of the year so far. At the other end of the country, this cloud has | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
produced a | :07:52. | :07:53. |