Londoners are facing yet another day of travel misery as the Tube strike drags into its third day—this time with the added headache of heavy rain.
Across the city, commuters are dealing with 100-foot queues for the Elizabeth line, overflowing buses, and frantic scrambles for bikes and taxis. Even Lime bikes have become a rare commodity, with reports of some turning up vandalised—pedals deliberately removed to stop others from using them.
At Liverpool Street, the line for the Elizabeth line snaked far outside the station, while queues for taxis and buses continued to swell. With most Tube lines shut down, the city’s streets and cycle lanes have become the battleground for frustrated commuters desperate to get to work.
A handful of trains had briefly returned yesterday on the Piccadilly and Northern lines, but staffing shortages meant many stations were still skipped. Today, almost all lines remain closed, forcing more drivers onto London’s already clogged arteries like the A20, M4, A4, A13 and M11.
Some Londoners found creative ways to dodge the chaos earlier in the week by hopping on River Thames boats—though today’s gloomy weather makes that less appealing.
Here’s the current travel picture:
No service on these Tube lines:
Bakerloo
Central
Circle
District
Hammersmith & City
Jubilee
Metropolitan
Northern
Piccadilly
Victoria
Waterloo & City
DLR:
- No trains running between Bank and Shadwell
- Severe delays on the rest of the line
London Overground:
- Mildmay Line: No southbound trains from Willesden Junction to Shepherd’s Bush until 6:15am
- Suffragette Line: Cancellations on early Barking Riverside to Gospel Oak services
- Other routes running as normal
Elizabeth line: Running, but expect long waits and packed trains.
For now, Londoners are bracing themselves for yet another day of disrupted commutes, soaked clothes, and the never-ending hunt for a way across the city. Photo by tompagenet, Wikimedia commons.