Please make the tube strike stop

[HLaB]

Lovely as that all sounds, I really do maintain that riding in a city is a whole lot safer than riding in the country. (on the road) aside from suicidal bunnies, badgers and livestock of all flavours, I find drivers in the sticks are far less aware of cyclists and drive soooo much faster.

Agreed from my limited experience, the busiest city I've cycled in is Dublin and I found when it is totally jammed there is a predictability to traffic/ lights, a critical mass of cyclists etc. The real (or real country as I'd call it) only feels safe because of the complete lack of traffic. I don't like some roads in that area in between people drive too fast for the circumstances (just because its National Speed limit, it doesn't mean its safe to drive at 60mph, to be truthful most drivers treat a limit as a minimum ) and don't know how to handle or even expect bikes. There is also a personal element, I'm more switched on / alert in the city where I tend to relax and divert my mind to other things in the country

 

[ttcycle]

I can understand why there is a Tube strike and I full support it but I've got to say - every morning, I head in to Clapham Junction with a bike and today was not a good demonstration of Londoners- people barging in between others and generally trying to push through throngs of people. Basically folks, you know it's going to be congested, you're going to be late- whether you're on bus, train, bike or your own car/motorbike, there is no need to be an insufferable knob now is there?!

It's not the Tube strikes that's the problem- it's the idiocy of people who are only self interested and don't care about anyone else on the roads - motorist, ped or cyclist. I remember the last strike when I was commuting from one end of London to another - the amount of inexperienced cyclists around, cycling not all too wisely- however, this is a skills thing - more of an arguement for instructors really imho.

 

[hackbike 666]

Amusingly, a lot of my mates didn't bother to take a Boris bike as they knew it would be pointless. They skated in instead, only to find that skating was faster than boris biking. Ahahahahaha!

God I wish I had mates as cool as that.

Luckily for me I rarely use the tube...(November 2008) at a guess apart from one stop from Wimbledon Park to Wimbledon occasionally (work related) which ruins my record.

 

[gaz]

I pretty much filtered from croydon to central london today. barely had a second where i was in open space.

 

[BentMikey]

Don't worry hackers, many of them are *much* cooler than I am, and leave me feeling slightly envious too.

 

[Jezston]

I still don't understand why the staff don't just open all the gates and turn off the oyster readers instead of going on strike?

That way you screw over management AND get the people on your side too.

 

[HaloJ]

I still don't understand why the staff don't just open all the gates and turn off the oyster readers instead of going on strike?

That way you screw over management AND get the people on your side too.

Jezton for leader of the RMT!

 

[hackbike 666]

Don't worry hackers, many of them are *much* cooler than I am, and leave me feeling slightly envious too.

They aren't very good mates then.

 

[clarion]

I still don't understand why the staff don't just open all the gates and turn off the oyster readers instead of going on strike?

That way you screw over management AND get the people on your side too.

Absolutely!

 

[dellzeqq]

would it be infra dig to point out that CS7 was almost empty at half past six in the morning...?

 

[CharlieB]

I still don't understand why the staff don't just open all the gates and turn off the oyster readers instead of going on strike?

That way you screw over management AND get the people on your side too.

Thank you for that, Jezton - loved that enough to quote it in my radio show last night.

 

[hackbike 666]

I still don't understand why the staff don't just open all the gates and turn off the oyster readers instead of going on strike?

That way you screw over management AND get the people on your side too.

They would probably get the boot.

 

[jdrussell]

Yesterday morning was a real shocker, the first time I have thought "ouch this is going to hurt" when the driver to the right of me thought it was a good idea to turn left in stationary traffic (that I was passing). I nearly went into the back of him.

Nightmare morning yesterday, nightmare

 

[skrx]

I still don't understand why the staff don't just open all the gates and turn off the oyster readers instead of going on strike?

That way you screw over management AND get the people on your side too.

Presumably because it wouldn't disrupt anyone important.


Train/tube drivers outside London get much less pay, and I'm sure it's because they can't hold Westminster and the City to ransom.

 

[Jezston]

Thank you for that, Jezton - loved that enough to quote it in my radio show last night.

Not sure I can take full credit as I'm sure I've heard the idea before! What was the radio show?