{"id":412740,"date":"2025-09-10T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412740\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:04:12","slug":"tube-strike-continues-to-cause-travel-misery-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412740\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube strike continues to cause travel misery in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are taking part in a week-long walkout which has paralysed Tube services.<\/p>\n<p>RMT leader Eddie Dempsey said there had been a \u201ccollapse\u201d in industrial relations which he warned could lead to more industrial action.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.81553439.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers at Liverpool Street Station in London\" data-title=\"London Underground RMT industrial action\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Lucy North\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>It is the third full day of the strike by members of the RMT union (Lucy North\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Commuters have turned to buses and bikes to get to work or have stayed away from the capital and worked from home.<\/p>\n<p>Data from Virgin Media O2 showed that footfall across central London at 1pm yesterday was down 16% compared with the same time last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The drop was said to be even more pronounced in business districts heavily reliant on the Tube and Docklands Light Railway, which is also being affected by strikes this week.<\/p>\n<p>Footfall in Canary Wharf was down by 31%, London Bridge and the City down 21% and Westminster down 19%, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>A Virgin Media O2 spokesperson said: \u201cAs Tube strikes continue across London, mobile network data analysis shows a significant drop in footfall across key business districts including Canary Wharf, the City and Westminster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No talks are planned to try to resolve the dispute over pay and hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are taking part in a week-long walkout which has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115179203263620335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}