00:00It's scarcely believable but we are now on the fifth day of the tube strike and somehow London
00:08is still managing to function. But today attention will turn here to City Hall where at Males Question
00:14Time Sir Sadiq Khan will face pressure to explain what he's done and why he hasn't got the strike
00:19called off. Sadiq Khan because he didn't act properly in his first two terms. Sadiq Khan
00:25because he's sat on his hands and done nothing this time. Sadiq Khan because he's brought London
00:29to the knees. I can't think of anyone else off the top of my head. The mayor's critics claim
00:35that Sadiq Khan has been missing in action in their terms and that he has not done enough
00:39as the chair of Transport for London to intervene and stop this dispute essentially harming the
00:45capital's economy and causing untold frustration to millions of travellers. Now Sadiq took the
00:51position early on that he was not going to intervene because when there was a tube strike threatened
00:56back in January 2024 he did find £30 million for the RMT for a pay boost. However the feeling
01:03was that if he intervened again then he'd be asked to intervene all the time. But critics
01:08may also suggest well the reason he intervened back in January 2024 was because five months
01:14later there was a mayor of the election coming up. That is not the case this time. The next
01:18mayor of the election is not till 2028 and we don't even know at this stage whether Sir Sadiq
01:23Khan plans to run again. So how have Londoners managed to get around during the tube strike? Well
01:29many have taken to two wheels. There's been an estimated two million bike journeys a day which
01:34is incredible. Normally it's about 1.4 million journeys a day by bike so there's been an exponential
01:39increase and also particularly in the use of line bikes and other hire bikes. There's been about a
01:45million journeys a day on the Elizabeth line which has kept running. The London Overground has also
01:50been running as well and TfL has been able to run short sections of some tube lines. But it really
01:56is quite an incredible position to have five days in a row with the RMT and TfL still at loggerheads
02:02and the chances are that this tube strike could be reignited in subsequent weeks and months.
02:07And finally, you can see that there are 10 feet on the road to spend so many times. So please
02:14wait and see, watch this for you guys.
02:26Again, you've got a lot of work. So you're the one that I have to go with. So you've got a lot of work. So you're
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