Were the odds in your favour this morning? Let's hope you didn't have to battle through the "Tube Strike Games" to get into work as imagined by coffee shop / bar Shoreditch Grind. , external

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Elaine Okyere
BBC London News

Thanks for all your comments on BBC London's Facebook page, external, on email, external and tweets to @BBCLondonNews, external on Twitter about the 24-hour Tube strike.

Here are some of the ones we've received:

Sue Deacon emailed, external to say: "I think people are concentrating too much on Tube train drivers as the main reason for the strikes. Has no one noticed that station staff are also on strike or any of the other reasons for the dispute? It is not only about pay. It has been stated by the union that the pay offer is fine. It is also about changes in work patterns of ALL staff of underground being imposed on us for one."

Dean McFarlane wrote on Facebook, external: "People seriously take the Tube for granted. My comment isn't referring to the strike, I am talking generally when it is running."

Rebecca Soni tweets, external: "No one is mentioning hospital visits. My mother, with grade 3 cancer, had to walk to her radiotherapy session. No sympathy for tube drivers."

Tim Donovan
Political Editor, BBC London

You don't tend to get any negotiations on strike day - but I spoke to the chief negotiator for Transport for London this morning and he said something interesting.

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He was wondering aloud if something had been lost in translation - he said we have gone as far as we can go in terms of money but we can see there appears to still be this lack of trust and doubt about what this will mean for rosters and how many weekends and how many nights they are going to have work.

The hope is that communication be can be overcome in some way.

The unions certainly don't give any indication at the moment that they see any positive signs in what's being offered by management, but talks, we're told, will resume next week.

BBC London News

London's Mayor has said the current deal offered to the unions would be as good as it is going to get.

Boris Johnson told us: "In this climate it is just unreasonable for the management to put more money on the table.

"I think what they need to do is put the offer - a very fair one - they need to take that and show it to their membership and get back to work as soon as possible."

BBC London News

Speaking to BBC London News, the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union reps outlined why they felt the need to take industrial action.

Steve Hedley, from the RMT, said: "The rosters that have been put out are the rosters from hell - 23 weekends out of 24 weeks, weeks and weeks of nights and weeks on roster where they can do what they want with people.

"It is an indication that all four transport unions for the first time ever have opposed this and come out together.

"At the end of the day we have to find a solution to this, but they have got to realise if they want to cover more shifts they can't do away with 800 jobs on top of the 2,000 they have done away with already."

Tim Donovan
Political Editor, BBC London

The new night Tube services are meant to be introduced on 12 September and the deadline is looking increasingly shaky.

Transport for London is saying it has twice now improved an offer to drivers in terms of pay - the latest a £200 payment per night shift you work over the first transition period when they are introduced.

The unions say they have not put that new offer to their members, but they have talked to their reps. In turn the reps have been talking to their members across London and they do not feel reassured about what the new rosters will mean.

They are still concerned about what this will do to their work-life balance.

Most people decided to swap to the bus, mainline rail or bicycle to get to work during a Tube strike, but not Alan Price.

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He was pictured cycling to work across Battersea Bridge on a Penny Farthing. Can you beat this? Let us know how you got into work or how you're planning to get home.

Get in touch by tweeting @BBCLondonNews, external, emailing london.local@bbc.co.uk or by contacting us on the BBC London Facebook page, external.

Martin Sall

So TfL added 250 extra buses when there are normally 7,000 of them? That is only 3.5% more. How many % more bus passengers are out today?

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Jacqueline Ellis

I am emailing as my daughter lives and works in London and will have to leave home 2 hours earlier to get to work and have the same 2 hour journey home when she finishes work at 7.30pm.

She is paid just above minimum wage despite having a masters degree and has 20 days' holiday.

Tube drivers should grow up and think about the people who are affected by this strike, they are on a very good wage and have excellent benefits including 43 days holiday. Shame on you.

London's streets are busy as Tube staff from four unions strike today. Here is a recap of what you can expect.

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• All Tube stations are expected to remain closd until tomorrow morning

• An extra 250 buses will be laid on during the strike, however, remember you can't use cash on them only contactless or Oyster cards

• Extra river services will run during peak hours

• Temporary cycle hire hubs have been created to offering more bikes for hire

• Prices will likely increase and demand will be high for taxis and minicabs

Transport for London has a complete break down of how transport in the capital will be affected, external.

Peter Austin, managing director at London Overground, external, said Clapham Junction was around 40% busier than usual.

"It's a very busy day for us at Clapham Junction across the London Overground typically we carry about 500,000 people today but we will be carrying nearly 750,000 today because of the strike," he said.

"We've got lots of volunteers from HQ and across the grades helping to try and keep the trains moving."

Dan Conquer

In response to Brian Long's comment to Tube driver Aaron that "you knew what the job entailed before signing up" - what a massive own-goal of a comment!

Yes, staff knew what the job entailed when signing up and that certainly did NOT included poorly-planned and chaotically-implemented night-shift working!

It is the attempt by management to radically move the goalposts from those that staff signed up to - and without any proper negotiation - that has caused this strike. If Brian Long was suddenly ordered by his employer to work night shifts presumably he would just suck it up? More fool him and any worker that did. Such submissiveness is one of the reasons workers living standards have been in decline for the last 3 decades.

I am a mainline Train Driver and we are 100% behind our Underground colleagues today and would be striking in support of them if only the rotten Tory anti-union laws weren't tying our hands behinds our backs.

Like the last Tube strike, bikes are a popular way of getting around - here's the story in numbers:

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John Hand
BBC News

Just walked (overground) along the route of the Central Line from King's Cross to Oxford Circus.

While the buses heading eastbound are not carrying a single soul, the buses passing me on the way into the city are jam-packed with passengers' faces and bodies pressed against the glass doors.

You can also see that commuters are standing two to a step on the internal stairways. Those passengers must be relieved that the temperatures are not more typical of an August day.

A woman has been taken to hospital following an earlier collision between a van and a cyclist at Bank junction.

The roads have reopened, City Police tweeted, external.

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ChrisHawkswell, EP07 tweets, external: "We have extra @LAS_CycleTeam medics working today to beat the #TubeStrike traffic. Remember to #UseUsWisely"

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@CityPolice

City Police tweets, external: #Bankjunction (west side) is currently closed due to a road traffic collision between a van & cyclist. @CityPolice, external & @Ldn_ambulance, external on scene

BBC Travel

There are delays in the Bank area due to an accident involving a cyclist on Poultry in the City of London.

For the latest travel updates follow @BBCTravelAlert, external on Twitter.

Press Association

Traffic jams have been reported in London with 200 miles of tailbacks as London Underground workers went on strike.

At 08:45am there were 428 separate traffic jams causing 197 miles of tailbacks, according to traffic experts at TomTom, external.

That was double the congestion at the same time last Thursday, although not as bad as the previous Tube strike in July when there were 1,445 jams and 761 miles of delays.

The most congested roads were around Parliament Square and on the A40 from Wood Lane to Marylebone Road.

The only journey Dave the dog is taking today is to bed it seems from this picture Mark Lilystone tweeted, external, well it's probably safer considering the entire Tube network is shutdown for a 24-hour strike.

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