The most London tweets about this morning’s tube strike chaos

‘You walked? I had to take a dolphin at Greenwich’

10 years ago | UPDATED 10 years ago

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Fear. Uproar. Complete and utter chaos. Ubers pile up on top of each other in an orgy of twisted steel as the screams of trampled bus commuters fill the air. Yep, there’s a strike on.

Today London was gripped once again by the pandemonium only possible when it loses its trusty tube, so Londoners responded in the only way possible when faced with a queue of 1,000 people and a two hour bus journey through the Square Mile.

They made jokes on Twitter. Here are some of the best.

There will be huge commuting one-upmanship on display tomorrow.

'You walked? I had to take a dolphin at Greenwich.'

'I swam.'#TubeStrike

— Dan (@ThatConnArtist) January 8, 2017

Happy Monday morning #London.
Due to the #TubeStrike TFL has released an updated map of the underground network… pic.twitter.com/f1xItAcwKN

— Gerry Stergiopoulos (@GerryGreek) January 9, 2017

It's not even 7am at Clapham Junction and I already feel like Simba in the stampede scene of The Lion King #TubeStrike #london

— Aisling (@aislingroseg) January 9, 2017

London during the tube strike, the buses are now mad Max style death trucks. People try to ride pigeons to work. No gaps are minded. Chaos.

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) January 9, 2017

Clapham Junction is a very similar scene to when the Titanic is sinking & they're trying to get everyone onto the lifeboats #TubeStrike #TfL

— gabriella sylvia (@gabsylvia_) January 9, 2017

Unbelievable scenes as my bus moves 20 feet without stopping. #TubeStrike

— Chris Gray (@ChrisGSGray) January 9, 2017

When you're sitting down in a bus because of the #TubeStrike & see a woman in front of u rubbing her stomach with the 'baby on board' badge. pic.twitter.com/bxOSvraTVR

— Señor Thomas (@Addi_Official) January 9, 2017

Leicester Square is so full of Ubers this morning it's like a Toyota Prius convention. #TubeStrike

— Chris Parsons (@ChrisParsons274) January 9, 2017

Queueing for a bus. London style. ??????‍♀️????‍♀️?‍♀️????‍♀️??#TubeStrike @BBCLondonNews pic.twitter.com/B6eJIdFPJ5

— Murray Burnell (@Murray_Burnell) January 9, 2017

London. Where 6 ZILLION people can be seen queuing 40 minutes for a bus to take them a distance that can be walked in 20 minutes #TubeStrike

— TenInchWheels (@teninchwheels) January 9, 2017

Inconvenienced by #TubeStrike ? It could be worse, you could be making your final journey. https://t.co/BOju5ZaVdp pic.twitter.com/Zz63FpZLyA

— PERFECT FUNERALS (@perfectfunerals) January 9, 2017

Spare a thought for the Tube strike's real victims: northerners who will spend all day complaining about it being on the news

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) January 9, 2017

I don't know who's more angry out of people in London trying to commute or people in Scotland seeing the tube strike lead the news.

— Jamie Ross (@JamieRoss7) January 9, 2017

*12 buses, 6 Ubers, crawls the final 2 streets*

Colleague: how was your journey in?

Me: yeah, not bad thanks.@SoVeryBritish #TubeStrike

— Jamie McCormack (@timeforjamie) January 9, 2017

Remember today during the #TubeStrike most stations have a Wetherspoon pub in walking distance so just come in and get mangled instead. ??

— JD WETHERSP00N (@WetherspoonsUK) January 9, 2017

Happy #TubeStrike Day! When everyone's furious that their own exploitation is hindered by tube workers fighting the conditions of theirs.

— michael (@Sisyphusa) January 9, 2017

LONDON IS CLOSED MATE

— Rylan Clark-Neal (@Rylan) January 9, 2017

London may have a #TubeStrike today, but least we have our reasonable house prices, eh? [sound of weeping]

— innocent drinks (@innocent) January 9, 2017

We're striking so service will be very similar to normal. Poor at best. I might go for a spray tan #TubeStrike #CentralLine

— Central Line Updates (@badcentralline) January 8, 2017

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