London commuters have increasingly been cycling to work because of this week\u2019s Tube strike, new figures show.<\/p>\n
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are staging walkouts until Friday in a dispute over pay and hours.<\/p>\n
Tube services have been crippled since Monday, causing travel chaos for commuters, tourists and other visitors to the capital.<\/p>\n
New figures from employee benefits provider YuLife showed that cycling miles tracked across London have jumped by 32% this week, from 3,878 to 5,120 miles, as workers turn to their bikes to beat the chaos.<\/p>\n
Sammy Rubin, chief executive of YuLife, said: \u201cWhen strikes disrupt our routines, we\u2019re reminded just how much control we do, or don\u2019t have over our daily lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s encouraging is that so many people are turning to movement as a way to cope. A 32% rise in cycling shows how willing Londoners are to take their wellbeing into their own hands when given the nudge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Workers on the Docklands Light Railway were also on strike on Thursday, adding to the disruption to travel in London.<\/p>\n
No talks are planned between the RMT or London Underground (LU) to discuss the operator\u2019s rejected 3.4% pay offer or union demands for a cut in the working week.<\/p>\n
RMT leader Eddie Dempsey said industrial relations had \u201ccollapsed\u201d, although both sides have expressed a willingness to resume talks.<\/p>\n
Nick Dent, lead negotiator for LU, said the strikes were in no-one\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n
He added that LU wanted to discuss the issue of fatigue which has been raised by the union as a reason for wanting a cut in the working week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London commuters have increasingly been cycling to work because of this week\u2019s Tube strike, new figures show. Members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,62031,388,26851,101,62030,62029,56,54,55,62032],"class_list":["post-131719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-docklands-light-railway","tag-london","tag-london-underground","tag-sports","tag-transport-union","tag-tube-strike","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-working-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}