Twitter responds to the 24-hour tube strike
If you don’t have time to be inconvenienced by the 24-hour tube strike in London, you can experience the full joy of queueing for a bus today in just 30 seconds … thanks to @Murray_Burnell.
Queueing for a bus. London style. #TubeStrike @BBCLondonNews pic.twitter.com/B6eJIdFPJ5
— Murray Burnell (@Murray_Burnell) January 9, 2017
Just look at the discipline in that queue! Does it get any more British than that?
For anyone who gave up and decided to walk to work, here’s a handy guide to exactly how long it takes to hotfoot it between stations.
Here is a walking map of central London showing the walking time, in minutes, between stops https://t.co/eBXybMaoWW #TubeStrike pic.twitter.com/YmvAp6XOAC
— Munish Datta (@MunishDatta) January 8, 2017
So exactly how bad was it for commuters travelling into the capital today? This bad, apparently…
Scenes at Waterloo: #TubeStrike pic.twitter.com/GjXIzFmC7q
— Mike Freeman (@MrMike1990) January 9, 2017
Clapham Junction is a very similar scene to when the Titanic is sinking & they're trying to get everyone onto the lifeboats #TubeStrike #TfL
— gabriella sylvia (@gabsylvia_) January 9, 2017
A lot of people chose to pay through the nose instead, by all accounts. It’s an ill wind, and all that.
Leicester Square is so full of Ubers this morning it's like a Toyota Prius convention. #TubeStrike
— Chris Parsons (@ChrisParsons274) January 9, 2017
Overcrowding was so bad at Clapham Junction that it had to be evacuated.
#ClaphamJunction station has been evacuated due to overcrowding during the #Tubestrike in #London https://t.co/hKmUYujTrQ
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 9, 2017
If only we had thought to take this guy’s advice!
Sleeping extra then blaming it on the Underground strike even though you take Overground #TubeStrike pic.twitter.com/ETLBKPaJoA
— Made (@MadeManJama) January 9, 2017
Imagine the conversations at work on Tuesday.
There will be huge commuting one-upmanship on display tomorrow.
'You walked? I had to take a dolphin at Greenwich.'
'I swam.'#TubeStrike
— Dan (@ThatConnArtist) January 8, 2017
Latest updates here.
A handy service update for today… #tubestrike pic.twitter.com/PYyJkvCZ1Z
— Channel 4 (@Channel4) January 9, 2017