{"id":542615,"date":"2026-04-21T10:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542615\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:06:48","slug":"tube-strikes-latest-disruption-begins-ahead-of-london-drivers-walkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542615\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube strikes latest: Disruption begins ahead of London drivers walkout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I need to travel to Stansted Airport &#8211; so that\u2019s going to be fun&#8217;published at 10:56 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:56 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">James Kelly<br \/>Outside Caldedonian Road Tube station<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man with glasses and blond hair stands in front of an Underground station entrance.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d945db98-4c53-4dcc-b0f7-89c39f3543ec.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"950\" height=\"533\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Caldedonian Road Tube station, which is on the Piccadilly line, this visitor to London tells me he was prepared for the strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was aware of it so I already made plans to head back before they start,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nevertheless, the industrial action continuing into Wednesday morning has thrown a spanner in his travel plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI need to travel to Stansted Airport so that\u2019s going to be a fun thing,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I need to travel to Stansted Airport &#8211; so that\u2019s going to be fun&#8217;published at 10:56 BST 10:56&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-542615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542615","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=542615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}