08/01/2017 London News

As you will have heard, we're now over just over four hours

into the Tube strike which promises to cause a massive headache

for commuters during tomorrow's rush hours.

The walk-out is over jobs and ticket office closures.

At six o'clock this evening, this started happening.

The doors to almost all central London Tube stations

were closed, marking the start of a 24-hour strike.

Both commuters and the Mayor of London had been hoping it

wouldn't come to this, but this morning, unions confirmed

they'd rejected a last-minute offer from Transport for London

While many don't know how or if they'll be able

to get to work tomorrow, what is certain is more

Businesses, like this one in Soho, are also worried.

Sundays are normally a fairly quiet day for us anyway.

However, obviously we rely on a lot of walk-ins that I don't believe

Lots of people come in to us after 7.30pm in the evening.

Considering the strike is starting this evening,

I don't think we're going to see any of that any more.

In north London tonight, thousands of football fans

at Tottenham Stadium know that getting home will be tough.

I have to stay at my parents' house and they're going

Uber, black cab, overground, have a walk, you never know.

We live in south-west London, so we're just going to go as far

south as we can on a bus, we might walk a bit.

Kind of hoping eventually we get somewhere we can get another bus

During the strike, TFL will put on 200 extra

buses in central London, but do expect long queues.

Although it'll be busy, hundreds of extra bikes will be

available at special pop-up hubs at Waterloo, King's Cross

and here at Soho Square near Tottenham Court Road.

There will also be extra staff around to help people drop off bikes

There are other ways to get into the capital tomorrow, but none

And we certainly won't be seeing many of these.

Emilia joins me now from King's Cross.

Can you give us a bit more detail about the disruption

Although the strike officially started this evening when things

have not been too bad so far. A lot of the stations are still open. The

real trouble will happen tomorrow. At King's Cross, where we are now,

we are expecting it to be chaotic in the morning because lots people come

into this station and take the tube to work or wherever they are going.

They will not be able to do that tomorrow. Big stations like

Waterloo, Euston and Marylebone will also be closed as well. Tomorrow,

Monday, all Tube station since then one will be shut. The Victoria line,

Waterloo City lines will not be running at all and there will be

severely reduced services on other lines, especially those in outer

London. The mayor was hoping that the strike would be called off. It

does not look like that is happening. No. The mayor has been

very keen on stopping this strike from going ahead. He has instructed

transport the London to continue negotiations. He said his team would

be there around the clock to resolve this dispute and commuters will be

hoping he can pull it off. Now let's get the weather

forecast from Elizabeth. Grey and mild to start the day

tomorrow. Plenty of mist and murk

about, some low cloud. A grey morning and it will turn wet

and windy as we head So the wind picking up,

some of this rain continuing Top temperatures still on the mild

side, into double figures. But it will turn colder

on Monday night into Tuesday. The very cold air doesn't bite,

though, until we get There could be some wintry showers

as we head towards the end Let me just give you some details

now. There's a full Tube strike guide

for you on our website, You can also access our Twitter

travel page @BBCTravelAlert or tune into BBC Radio London or watch

BBC One from 6.30am when we'll bring Good evening. Rain around for all of

us over the next 24-hour. Then it will turn