{"id":542850,"date":"2026-04-21T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542850\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:04:09","slug":"tube-strikes-latest-first-of-six-day-long-walkouts-in-london-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542850\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube strikes latest: First of six day-long walkouts in London begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forest sees increased demand for its hire e-bikespublished at 11:32 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:32 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/078e4085-4a1f-4872-8563-3e164305d2ed.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Nisha Patel<br \/>At Liverpool Street station<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The front wheels of numerous Forest bike next to each other\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/89925908-844b-4948-9fcc-8e94ec0e84bd.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3500\" height=\"2333\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Liverpool Street Station this morning, hire bikes were disappearing from their docking stations rapidly during the morning commute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The head of policy at e-bike hire company Forest, Alex Berwin, tells me the company is &#8220;already seeing a lot more people using the bikes compared to a regular week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says the company expects hire rates to increase as the strike action takes hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;During the last strikes last year, we saw around 10 times the number of app downloads than we would see on a regular weekday,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our advice is to wear a helmet, plan your route &#8211; preferable long some of the cycling routes &#8211; and take your time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forest sees increased demand for its hire e-bikespublished at 11:32 BST 11:32 BST Nisha PatelAt Liverpool Street station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542850","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=542850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}