:00:13. > :00:16.Good evening. A tube strike is underway tonight
:00:17. > :00:20.after talks between the RMT union and London Underground broke down
:00:21. > :00:23.earlier today without agreement. The first 48 hour walk`out began at nine
:00:24. > :00:27.o'clock this evening and will continue until Wednesday night.
:00:28. > :00:32.There's also a planned three day strike next week which begins on the
:00:33. > :00:35.evening of Bank Holiday Monday. The dispute is over plans to close
:00:36. > :00:40.ticket offices. Tonight the Mayor described the strike action as
:00:41. > :00:42.bonkers. Let's join our transport correspondent Tom Edwards who's
:00:43. > :00:55.outside Great Portland Street Station. The tube strike started 1.5
:00:56. > :01:00.hours ago and as you can see, it is already starting to bite. At this
:01:01. > :01:04.station they closed the doors ten minutes ago. We are already getting
:01:05. > :01:10.severe delays across other lines on the network. This has been a really
:01:11. > :01:15.eventful day. Here we go again. Talks this morning were always a
:01:16. > :01:21.long shot. After two hours they collapsed. Anything to report? We
:01:22. > :01:24.had a frank discussion with the leadership of the RMT. We made it
:01:25. > :01:34.clear that our proposals are just that, they remain on the table but
:01:35. > :01:37.we are up for genuine consultation. This is what London Underground
:01:38. > :01:44.wants, all ticket offices closed and staff in the ticket halls. It will
:01:45. > :01:49.get rid of 950 posts and save ?40 million a year. It will also mean
:01:50. > :01:56.restructuring the company. There will be no compulsory redundancies.
:01:57. > :02:02.Part of the plans means the number of local stations where staff work
:02:03. > :02:06.alone doubles to 125. While bosses say stations will always be staffed,
:02:07. > :02:12.expect more of this. At Goldthorpe Road station we could not find any.
:02:13. > :02:17.Late at night with no one here, that is not nice at all. I think it is
:02:18. > :02:22.trouble for somebody but for me it is fine. If you have problems
:02:23. > :02:28.getting through the barriers, who will help? It is not right. All
:02:29. > :02:31.unions are in consolidation on these plans but the RMT wants London
:02:32. > :02:36.Underground to halt the ticket office closures. It has concerns
:02:37. > :02:40.over safety. It says it would have suspended a strike if bosses had
:02:41. > :02:45.agreed to a public on saltation. What would you say? The strike will
:02:46. > :02:49.go ahead but we have tried our damnedest to persuade them to allow
:02:50. > :02:53.proper consultation, to allow the people of London and have their say,
:02:54. > :02:58.because this will mean a big, big impact, not only for the next couple
:02:59. > :03:04.of days but for the future of the tube network. With more strikes
:03:05. > :03:09.planned for next week, the chance of compromise looks slim. We are going
:03:10. > :03:13.to close 250 ticket offices, we will make them available for other
:03:14. > :03:19.functions. We will do fantastic things with our stations. Commuters
:03:20. > :03:21.are now facing two days of severe disruption with perhaps more next
:03:22. > :03:24.week. So Tom you mentioned next week's
:03:25. > :03:31.strike there ` what's your assessment of how this is going to
:03:32. > :03:34.end? What is really interesting of this hardening of the language from
:03:35. > :03:42.the Mayor and from London Underground. The Mayor has said we
:03:43. > :03:46.will shut 260 ticket offices, seemingly no room for compromise. It
:03:47. > :03:51.reminds me of the dispute in 2010 when they tried to reduce the number
:03:52. > :03:56.of ticket office opening hours. Then we had a lot of strikes but the
:03:57. > :04:00.changes still went through. This could be a very long ugly dispute
:04:01. > :04:05.for London and for Londoners. Thank you.
:04:06. > :04:08.So with the strike underway and for those trying to get around the
:04:09. > :04:12.capital tomorrow let's get a picture of how services are looking. We can
:04:13. > :04:21.cross to Alice Bhandhukravi who's got the latest. That is right. As we
:04:22. > :04:25.heard from Tom the tube is already affected but other forms of
:04:26. > :04:30.transport such as the DLR, London overground, tram link and National
:04:31. > :04:35.rail services are running as normal. Let's get to the nitty`gritty,
:04:36. > :04:39.tomorrow's morning commute, the tube network will be paralysed in places.
:04:40. > :04:43.There will be no service at all on the Circle Line or the Waterloo and
:04:44. > :04:48.City Line. There will be part closures across the rest of the
:04:49. > :04:52.network. It is important to remember that even when there is a particular
:04:53. > :04:56.line running, the trains will not necessarily be stopping at all the
:04:57. > :05:01.stations along the route. The Northern Line will have severe
:05:02. > :05:07.station closures. There will be no central or Piccadilly Line services
:05:08. > :05:10.through zone one. And finally we should mention Heathrow. Piccadilly
:05:11. > :05:15.Line trains will only be stopping at terminals one, two and three. We
:05:16. > :05:20.have also got the added problem of a separate strike on Heathrow express
:05:21. > :05:24.and Heathrow connect. That means getting to and from the airport will
:05:25. > :05:31.be very difficult indeed. Millions of commuters being affected ` what's
:05:32. > :05:37.being done to help commuters? Other services are being provided. There
:05:38. > :05:41.will be extra buses and riverboat services. They were really popular
:05:42. > :05:49.during the last strike. We are expecting things to return to normal
:05:50. > :05:52.for Thursday morning. Thank you. And of course we'll be keeping you
:05:53. > :05:55.up`to`date with all the latest travel information throughout the
:05:56. > :05:59.strikes. There are regular updates on our radio station BBC London
:06:00. > :06:02.94.9. You can also follow developments on our website and on
:06:03. > :06:05.Twitter. And we'll bring you the latest in our TV bulletins tomorrow
:06:06. > :06:09.morning during Breakfast. Let's see if the weather's going to
:06:10. > :06:11.be kind to commuters. I'll wish you a very goodnight and hand you over
:06:12. > :06:24.to Wendy for the forecast. Thank you. Good evening. Tonight
:06:25. > :06:29.will not be too much of a problem. There will be some cloud that filth
:06:30. > :06:37.in. There may be one or two showers here and there but mostly it will be
:06:38. > :06:41.a dry night will stop. The tomorrow morning's rush hour, it will be
:06:42. > :06:46.cloudy, mostly dry but with the risk of a shower. If you are prepared for
:06:47. > :06:52.a shower you will do nicely. It is not too chilly across London. As we
:06:53. > :06:57.go through the morning into the afternoon, I think London will hang
:06:58. > :07:02.on to some spells of sunshine and dry weather. There is the risk of
:07:03. > :07:08.getting one or two showers. They will be through Kent, Sussex and
:07:09. > :07:13.into Surrey. There will be some rumbles of thunder possible as well.
:07:14. > :07:17.For the evening commute as well, again there is the risk of a shower
:07:18. > :07:23.but it will not be a wash`out, hopefully for London. We have a
:07:24. > :07:27.similar sort of day on Wednesday. There will be some showers around. A
:07:28. > :07:29.spell of rain goes through on Thursday and then it will turn much
:07:30. > :07:32.cooler as we Thursday and then it will turn much
:07:33. > :07:39.cooler as we go into the bank holiday weekend.
:07:40. > :07:43.Hello, I am going to throw some numbers at you first of all. 22
:07:44. > :07:49.Celsius was the temperature recorded at Aviemore making it the warmest
:07:50. > :07:51.day of the year so far. At the other end of the country, this cloud has
:07:52. > :07:53.produced a