Wednesday, August 31, 2011

In London - the next strike in the subway

The third of a monthly series of strikes on the London Underground runs November 2-3. Subway employees are protesting against the imminent closure or reduction in work time cashier at a number of stations with low passenger traffic. Formally, the action lasts for 24 hours, but the problem with trains began the evening of Tuesday 2 November and will last all day on Nov. 3 in the morning on November 3 routes are about 40% of trains running about 70% of the stations. Completely closed line Circle, on the other lines do not operate separate areas. Intervals even on operating the routes are great. Passengers who travel from Heathrow Airport to the city, will have to transplant - Picadilly line runs only from Heathrow to the station Acton Town. Further, the center can be reached by train line District. Due to more frequent stops on this line and increase time to ride from the airport to the center will take about one and a half hours. Transport authorities of the British capital has mobilized hundreds of additional buses and increased the number of flights of ships on the Thames. Train system Overground, underground automatic DLR, trams and the south London suburban trains go on time. As stated in the Transport for London, during the last strike 93% of Londoners still managed to make trips by public transport. Administration metro explains the reduction desks small demand for their services after widespread travel Oyster Card, which fill up most of the passengers in vending machines available at each station. According to the management of underground, cash register, where sometimes sold at least ten tickets per hour, are meaningless. Trade unions objected, arguing that the cashiers to help passengers, including disabled people, as well as working as a help desk. The next strike, the conflict is not settled, will be November 28-29.

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