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Strike paralyzes London underground train system

World Dec. 27, 2011 - 06:27AM JST ( 3 )

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m5c32Dec. 27, 2011 - 01:15PM JST

Striking on a busy holiday certainly has an impact --not sure that's the best way to gain sympathy with the people on the street. Sure it puts a dent in the operator's revenue, but it's felt most by their punters (riders) and ultimate bosses --the commuters, whose sympathy, I'd imagine, they would welcome.
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Bebert61Dec. 27, 2011 - 05:11PM JST

This is why socialists and communists love "mass transit" and why they hate automobiles. Mass transit gives them power. In post-WWI Italy, it wasn't so much that the trains didn't run on time, they didn't run at all. If the socialists saw a priest or a soldier on the train, they would refuse to let it run until that person was evicted. The Italian people had to resort to walking or taking a horse-drawn cart. That is, until Mussolini fixed the problem of Italian mass transit. Then the trains ran. Time for Cameron to bring the whip down on these transit clowns.
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nandakandamandaDec. 27, 2011 - 11:50PM JST

I wish they wouldn't call it a 'service'. These drivers are already way overpaid and the way they go about the job is haphazard, casual and unprofessional. 'London's underground train lottery' would be a better description.