NO ONE!!! It is rubbish. Seriously, in a city of 8.7million people - 2.95 million of whom use the Underground every day - you can't expect anything less than chaos when the tube shuts down.
With 270 stations and 400km of track we're talking about the longest metro system in the world. The Tube is the city's nervous system and when the planned 38-hour strike took place last week I didn't like it... it was just plain eerie.
You had people wandering the streets like zombies just not sure of where to go and what to do... collecting at bus station, gazing blank-eyed as the crowded red buses heaved past in the manic traffic.
And for what? A few jumped up union officials with (in my opinion) unrealistic demands including: a 5% pay increase, a promise of no compulsory redundancies in the next 2 years and the reinstatement of two sacked workers (one for opening the doors on the wrong side of the tube i.e. the side without the platform that drops off onto the electric track and then for lying about a safety check... and the second for allegedly stealing - he is currently still undergoing trial!).
Do they know there is a recession on! Imagine if all of us had a little tanty about the fact that things are tough and refused any sense of civic sense of obligation unless we were promised that santa is real, the tooth fairy won't skimp on her payments and none of us will ever lose our jobs even when we're naughty.
To be fair to the Transport For London staff, those in the union voted 3 to 1 AGAINST the strike - but still it went ahead.
Oh well... in the spirit of looking at the bright side of life I would have never caught the bus out to work if it wasn't for the strike and I actually enjoyed the ride. Not only did I get to see a whole different part of London that I'm usually whizzing through in a dark tunnel...
I also spotted this fabulous ensemble from a 60+ year old plastic-surgery-addicted, fashion victim. Check out the leather pants and the pouffy jacket! Nice.
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