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Disruptions as UK underground grinds to a halt

Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London

Day one of a three-day strike that’s made London’s underground network grind to a crawl; stations normally teeming with people, either closed or offering only a skeletal service.

The advice from the authorities: take the bus. And that has meant scenes like this: crowded bus stops.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson criticized the biggest strike in Britain in a generation as an unnecessary aggravation.

And all this of course comes with a cost to the city of London and to the people.

The London chamber of commerce says the cost of the tube strike to London’s economy is tens of millions of dollars a day. But perhaps the greatest impact is simply the headache caused to the nearly five million people who use the underground to get from A to B every day.

The strike has shown how dependent London is on its underground network and powerful unions are.

Negotiations for a compromise are ongoing and so are the strikes. And it doesn’t stop with the rail workers- other professions such as teaching and healthcare are also considering industrial action in the UK’s summer of unrest.


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