Londoners are facing another morning of travel chaos as the disruption from Monday’s Tube strike spills into a second day.
TfL said some stations will remain closed “at the beginning of the day” and urged members of the public not to travel until after 8am.
All major Tube services - including the Circle, Central, Jubilee and Victoria lines - were running a “good service” as of 7.30am, according to the Transport for London (TfL) website. The London Overground, the new Elizabeth line and tram services were also operating a good service.
It comes just a day after commuters in the capital faced severe disruption as 4,000 RMT Union workers walked out of Tube stations across the capital for 24 hours in a dispute over jobs and pensions.
The Tube strike caused delays on London’s roads, affecting private cars, commercial vehicles and buses.
TfL said no plans have been tabled on pensions or terms and conditions, and nobody will lose their jobs because of the proposals it has set out.
As part of previous funding agreements, the Government has required TfL to work towards achieving financial sustainability on its operations by April 2023.
TfL has proposed not recruiting into around 500 to 600 posts as they become vacant.
The RMT said that, under current proposals, working agreements will be torn up and the looming threat to pensions remains in place.
General secretary Mick Lynch said: “We are demanding a direct face-to-face meeting with mayor Sadiq Khan to sort this mess out.
“There’s no point in our union continuing to sit opposite management representatives who have neither the inclination nor the authority to negotiate a settlement, when the power lies with the mayor.”
Downing Street condemned the strike due to its impact on passengers and businesses.
“This sort of action is deeply disappointing and not what the public want to see, not what we want to see for businesses still trying to recover post-pandemic, people’s lives being disrupted in London,” the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said.
