To everyone Londoner’s disgust the Metronet employees have decided to strike without notice and seemingly no good cause. Metronet are responsible for running a number of the lines on the underground and the company itself has in recent times been reported in the press as being in a lot of financial strife. Even though some lines were still running today the massive overspill caused sever delays on all other lines and resulted in overfilled trains and buses and just general substantial disruption to everyone’s day.

I understand the need for the employees to try and protect themselves but by implementing this strike but the financial losses to London and London business will clearly be entirely disproportionate to their demands. It almost seems quite selfish to approach the problem in this manner.

Nevertheless business must go on and most Londoners had to seek alternative methods of coming in to work today. For me this meant a walk though Central London to our head office at Millbank. I did try and get on to the bus but even at 7.30am in the morning the buses and bus stops were heaving so there was no chance I would get on. The walk was at the very least quite pleasant taking me through three parks – Hyde, Green and St James. Thankfully it was a glorious morning.

Hyde Park
Green Park
St James’ Park
St James’ Park II