No Piccadilly Line Service All Day Thursday

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Drivers on 24 hour strike till 9pm tonight

Transport for London says there is no Piccadilly line service all day today, Thursday March 24 and advises travellers to allow more time for their journeys.

Drivers on the line are on a 24 hour strike from 9pm on Wednesday till 9pm tonight.

The Piccadilly line is then expected to return and run a Saturday service on Good Friday March 25 as part of the Easter Bank Holiday arrangements, although customers are advised to check before they travel.

If you're travelling between Heathrow airport and central London during this strike, you can use Heathrow Connect and Heathrow Express to and from London Paddington station

Easter engineering works on the Tube, TfL Rail and London Overground will go ahead as planned from Friday March 25. Read details of the works.

Please allow more time for your journey and follow @TfLTravelAlerts and @piccadillyline on Twitter for the latest travel advice.

Travellers can expect interchange stations along the Piccadilly line – Finsbury Park, Green Park and King’s Cross St. Pancras stations in particular – to be much busier than usual. Services on other Tube and Rail lines, the bus network and river are running as normal but were expected to be busy with passengers seeking alternative routes. Roads in west and central London were also expected to be busy

Extra buses are being provided and TfL is reminding travellers that buses do not accept cash, so passengers will need to use their contactless debit or credit card, Oyster or bus & tram pass to continue their journeys.

Before the start of the strike, Pat Hansberry, Operations Director for London Underground, said: "Our customers are advised to check our real-time travel tools for the latest information, in the event that the Piccadilly line strike goes ahead this week. We urge the union leaderships to work with us constructively to resolve these local issues, so that Londoners aren’t subjected to pointless disruption."

RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: "The hostile and aggressive attitude by tube bosses has collapsed the normal negotiating process and the strike action goes ahead exactly as planned.

" The wholesale abuse of procedures and agreements by management on the Piccadilly Line is rife and amounts to the development of a campaign of bullying, harassment and intimidation that the union will not allow to continue.

" RMT will not sit back and allow individual members to be picked off by a vindictive and aggressive management who are continuing to drag their heels over addressing fundamental safety issues which leave staff in a vulnerable and exposed position."

Before travelling, passengers can keep up to date at TfL Tube Strike and by following @TfLTravelAlerts, @TfLTrafficNews and @TfLBusAlerts on Twitter.

March 24, 2016

 

March 24, 2016