{"id":991,"date":"2010-09-07T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/london-tube-strike-leaves-travelers-and-locals-stranded\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:03:00","slug":"london-tube-strike-leaves-travelers-and-locals-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/london-tube-strike-leaves-travelers-and-locals-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"London Tube Strike Leaves Travelers and Locals Stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp; \n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>Many stranded as London Tube begins strike series<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCommuters rallied out of central London&rsquo;s Kings Cross station as they were braced for an early morning battle of using the capital&rsquo;s buses and hire bikes with the first in a series of day-long strikes by London Underground staff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe strike, in line with over 800 job cuts, began on Monday but didn&rsquo;t cause much trouble until Tuesday morning&rsquo;s rush hour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nResidents and guests are taking boats, bikes, and taxis to get around the city with as many as 10,000 Tube workers striking. About 40 percent of the city&rsquo;s 500 Tube trains are running, with only one line out of service, according to Transport for London.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-09-06\/londoners-to-take-bikes-boats-taxis-to-work-amid-24-hour-subway-strike.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Bloomberg <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Many stranded as London Tube begins strike series &nbsp; Commuters rallied out of central London&rsquo;s Kings Cross station as they were braced for an early morning battle of using the capital&rsquo;s buses and hire bikes with the first in a series of day-long strikes by London Underground staff. &nbsp; The strike, in line with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}