Central and Waterloo & City line Tube strike driving outraged commuters to buses and Twitter
Transport for London strikes again.
City workers' travel has been thrown off course this morning due to strike action on the Waterloo & City and Central line services.
The Waterloo & City line is down throughout the entire day while Central line services have been severely limited and are currently only running between Leytonstone – Epping and White City – Ealing Broadway.
https://twitter.com/centralline/statuses/502709259143225344
From 10pm onwards, all service on the line will be shutdown, so be wary of having too many post-work pints and finding yourself stranded.
For thousands of city workers this all meant a familiar story of long waits, squishing into suffocating carriages and an excuse for lateness. Today's strike follows previous walk-outs in May, April and February of this year. Lots of commuters are angry, and lots of them have taken that fury to the place that does indignation best – Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Zoku_Kuzo/statuses/502703358147567616
https://twitter.com/ShaanSahonta/statuses/502689304632918016
Many passengers were caught unawares by the strike:
So hands up who didn't know there was a tube strike this morning (central line only)…
— Kala Paul-Worika (@K_ala) August 22, 2014
https://twitter.com/JosephNorman/statuses/502720035904061440
https://twitter.com/BillyFord/statuses/502701619432423425
Members of Aslef – the union which represents UK train drivers – working on the Central line began the walk-out at midnight last night and will continue until the same time tonight.
Finn Brennan of Aslef said the strike was in response to a "bullying culture" within management working on the line:
At its heart is management's refusal to treat drivers with the respect and dignity they deserve .Our members will not tolerate a situation where vulnerable people leave sickness review meetings in tears and drivers with years of good and long service are threatened with disciplinary action for a delay of 33 seconds in leaving a terminus.