Commuters not wearing masks pack on to crowded Tube trains despite mayor vowing services are at 75%

Commuters not wearing face masks have again packed on to crowded Tube trains despite Sadiq Khan vowing services are running at 75 per cent capacity. Huge numbers of travellers struggled to abide by social distancing rules on the Jubilee Line and at Canning Town, with many not wearing masks for protection. The Mayor claimed the … Read more

Tube bosses tell commuters not to use service during rush hour

‘Don’t use this station in rush-hour!’ Tube bosses tell commuters NOT to use service at peak times as Government mobility chart reveals spike in online searches for walking and driving directions TfL sign urges commuters not use Canary Wharf station during rush hour  Tubes and buses are packed as passengers head to work on Tuesday … Read more

Tube union tells it drivers they can REFUSE to return to work due to coroanvirus

Tube train unionists have threatened to refuse to return to work because the plan to increase services to 70 per cent ‘directly puts the safety of Underground train drivers at risk’.  London Underground drivers are being advised by their union of their right to refuse to work in circumstances where they are at risk of … Read more

Commuters slam Sadiq Khan’s ‘terrible’ Tube service for ‘putting lives at risk’

‘Profligate’ London Mayor Sadiq Khan was slammed by passengers who crammed on to the packed Tube again today after he agreed to ramp up services in return for a £1.6billion taxpayer-funded bailout. Mr Khan had said Transport for London was hours from going bust and blamed Boris Johnson for no social distancing on trains by … Read more

Back to work day: Commuters pack onto Tube and trains

London Mayor Sadiq Khan was today urged to get a grip and increase levels of trains and buses urgently as stomach-churning video and photographs showed commuters crammed in like sardines this morning. Boris Johnson has said that anyone who cannot work from home should attempt to return to their workplace – but social media videos make … Read more

Coronavirus: 40% children need breathing tube and ventilator

Children who contract coronavirus may be at greater risk of suffering from severe complications or death than previously believed, a new small study reveals. Researchers found nearly three-quarters of all children hospitalized in the US struggled to breathe and almost 40 percent need to be ventilated. More than one in five experienced multi-system organ failure. … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Sadiq Khan says packed Tube trains ‘SAFE’

Sadiq Khan today claimed the capital’s jam-packed Tubes are ‘safe’ but sided with union chiefs in saying it is too soon to ease the lockdown because so many Transport for London workers are off sick. The Mayor said he was ‘really worried’ about the impact any easing of restrictions would have on the city’s public transport … Read more

Would you want to share a bed with a man wearing a mask with a long tube protruding it?

Marriage can be such a slog. And for many of us there is that depressing realisation that you can never win. At least, that’s how it feels in our household. For years I have been told to do something about my snoring. And now I have — but my wife tells me it’s ‘freaking’ her … Read more

Commuters cram into Tube carriages in London as UK enters fourth week of lockdown

A NHS nurse today claimed his commute to work is getting ‘increasingly dangerous’ as he still faces crowded London Underground trains with Britain entering its fourth week of lockdown.    Michael Underwood slammed Transport for London and Mayor Sadiq Khan and compared his journey to ‘jumping off a cliff.  Commuters were pictured piling onto Tube trains … Read more