tube chaos - and strikes?
December 15, 2005 – 12:01 pmquestion:so are the pre-christmas Tube strikes still going ahead? Or have they been called off? does anyone know? (considering it affects a million [ or more!] Londoners everyday)
does anyone remember the chaos in early 2001 resulting from tube strikes back then? ha i remember that day, i used to live in finsbury park back then and worked in pimlico..so after about 4 hours of fighting to get on buses, etc. i’d managed to get to work. of course the funny thing was watching the chaos on the streets - fights ( literally) breaking out everywhere, especially on the Routemaster buses ( which are sadly now being phased out - more on that later) conductors going crazy, little old ladies batting people with their handbags - gosh.
and to think of the hoo-ha there would be if the Tube strikes did happen in the rush up to xmas! All those people and all those parcels..
No-one seems to know, and of course the website doesn’t say anything. Did they decide at some point not to go ahead ..and just leave people with the spectre of tube closures at such a critical time? Or did i dream the whole thing up..
In any case, there is just too much chaos on the Tube to keep under wraps. I mean we should all be screaming about it!! This morning - i use the Jubilee line to get to work, and as you may or may not know, there is currently a ‘reduced service’ on that particular line. This is so that they can add an extra carriage to all trains - for more capacity. ( and of course so that by the time the Olympics roll around..think..Stratford is on the Jubilee line) Anyhow, all well and good, in the meantime though it could be considered pure hilarity ( if you don’t have to go anywhere) or bloody murder. Or possibly even riots? ( they do seem to be happening just about everywhere !) Take your pick.
police at bus stops breaking up fights back in 2001
6 Responses to “tube chaos - and strikes?”
“they do seem to be happening just about everywhere !”
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‘everywhere’ where? on Tube? … on every public services? … in London?
England? …. Or did you mean strikes happen to be something ‘regular’ all around the world?
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And did you mean that there always a group of people extendedly ‘trying to take some advantage’ ‘for their own good’, during critical time?
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By Cimurai on Dec 16, 2005
no i meant riots all over the world. haven’t blogged the Sydney race riots - i was sort of referring to that now - a spate of violence sparking off lots of places - to do with tensions/perceived tensions between different groups. of course tension always exist everywhere, its interesting to see what sets it off into out and out violence.
re: your question - “And did you mean that there always a group of people extendedly ‘trying to take some advantage’ ‘for their own good’, during critical time?”
well i wasn’t. i dont think a riot implies someone’s taking advantage.
in any case of course people - whether in groups or individually - are trying to take advantage of each other ( for their own good - however they understand that), again collectively or individually - and its called ‘competition’ in this paradigm of ours. which is why its important to think of a paradigm shif to understanding co-operation.
By sonia on Dec 16, 2005
Camurai and Sonia are the same person.
Sonia is so puffed up with inverted ego (a hallmark of all leftists) that she has now started leaving messages on her own blog under different names.
By Bihari Babu on Dec 17, 2005
Bihari Babu,
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What make you think that we are the same person?
Isn’t that you clearly can see that we have a very very different characteristic?
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By Cimurai on Dec 17, 2005
heh heh this is a good one. SO IC doesn’t have a puffed up ego, having to come along to blogs under two different personas?
in any case, for argument’s sake - why would having two personas be a sign of a puffed ego?
By sonia on Dec 17, 2005
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