Train drivers striking on Cup Final Day?

girlfriend44 · 2023-04-27T11:00:39+00:00

AIBU to think people will.lose sympathy for train drivers striking on the day people will be trying to get to Wembley for the Football? Have they helped their cause?

ReviewingTheSituation · 27/04/2023 12:03

The whole point of strikes is to cause disruption. There were train strikes for the London Marathon last year, when people were coming from all over the country (and beyond). It was a PITA... but that's the point!

At least for the Cup Final, clubs can lay on coaches etc, as most people will surely buy their tickets from the clubs (I'm not sure who's in it - at least one of the Manchester teams?).

billyt · 27/04/2023 12:06

Both Manchester teams. Possibly 30,000 tickets to each club. OK, not all Manchester fans live in Manchester but still a shitload of people needing to get to Wembley, That's a lot of coaches/buses/cars now on the road.

As well as many other groups of people.

Neededanewuserhandle · 27/04/2023 12:07

Most Man U fans seem to be cockneys or from overseas so as long as the tubes and Heathrow services are working they should be fine.

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girlfriend44 · 27/04/2023 12:08

Neededanewuserhandle · 27/04/2023 12:07

Most Man U fans seem to be cockneys or from overseas so as long as the tubes and Heathrow services are working they should be fine.

United fans come from all over the country.
Stupid to say none will be coming from Manchester.

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ReviewingTheSituation · 27/04/2023 12:11

billyt · 27/04/2023 12:06

Both Manchester teams. Possibly 30,000 tickets to each club. OK, not all Manchester fans live in Manchester but still a shitload of people needing to get to Wembley, That's a lot of coaches/buses/cars now on the road.

As well as many other groups of people.

Same problem for the marathon - 48,000 runners, and I would imagine the vast majority travelling with family of some description (only a very small % would have travelled alone). So let's make a conservative estimate of 100,000 all trying to get to the same place at the same time.

We all made alternative plans. Yes, it was stressful, and yes, it was annoying. But if the strikes didn't make people have to alter their plans, they wouldn't cause disruption and their cause wouldn't be highlighted.

I only use the marathon as an example - I'm sure there are plenty of others. But a big event isn't going to stop the strikes, and at least you have plenty of notice to make a plan B.

Neededanewuserhandle · 27/04/2023 12:13

girlfriend44 · 27/04/2023 12:08

United fans come from all over the country.
Stupid to say none will be coming from Manchester.

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I wasn't being serious - just poking fun at the glory hunters.

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girlfriend44 · 27/04/2023 12:18

ReviewingTheSituation · 27/04/2023 12:11

Same problem for the marathon - 48,000 runners, and I would imagine the vast majority travelling with family of some description (only a very small % would have travelled alone). So let's make a conservative estimate of 100,000 all trying to get to the same place at the same time.

We all made alternative plans. Yes, it was stressful, and yes, it was annoying. But if the strikes didn't make people have to alter their plans, they wouldn't cause disruption and their cause wouldn't be highlighted.

I only use the marathon as an example - I'm sure there are plenty of others. But a big event isn't going to stop the strikes, and at least you have plenty of notice to make a plan B.

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Question is will.people have any sympathy for them if they do this on a major day like the Marathon or the Cup Final?
Alot of people don't care for Extinction Rebellion when they hold up traffic.

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ReviewingTheSituation · 27/04/2023 12:23

I have been hugely inconvenienced by the strikes - not just for the marathon, but have had to move work commitments to locations where I can easily drive to (from ones where I'd normally get the train), and change social plans. And yes - I still support them.
So - on this sample of 1 (!), yes, there is still sympathy for them.

I imagine now that some of the issues have been resolved (with one of the unions, I think) that the end is probably in sight.

I think protests are slightly different from strikes.

ThisSingleMama · 27/04/2023 13:45

They don't want 'sympathy' though

A bit of football hardly matters does it!?

Aaron95 · 27/04/2023 13:49

Striing on a Saturday wil actually cause less disruption. Far more people use the railways on weekdays than on weekends.

Nordicrain · 27/04/2023 13:50

People can't get to work - no big deal
People can't get to football - enough is enough!

Theimpossiblegirl · 27/04/2023 13:54

Don't blame the train drivers. The Government has plenty of time to engage in talks, just like with the teachers, doctors, nurses etc. and the strikes can be called off.

They just don't want to.

GimmeSleep · 27/04/2023 13:56

Neededanewuserhandle · 27/04/2023 12:07

Most Man U fans seem to be cockneys or from overseas so as long as the tubes and Heathrow services are working they should be fine.

😂😂😂

taxguru · 27/04/2023 13:57

YABU but only because relatively few people travel by train from the North to Wembley football matches. They don't put on "football specials" like they used to, so most fans would be travelling on normal service trains, which is problematic as it's difficult to get back North after a match as you have to first travel back to Euston and then get one of the few Saturday evening trains up the West Coast Main Line. The days have long gone when tens of thousands of people used the trains to get from the North to Wembley.

My team (League 1/2) have been to Wembley twice in the past few years. Neither time could we actually get a train because the timings just didn't work. There was no train back North that we could have caught after the match. Once was because it was a late kick off (4.30 or 5pm) and the other was because of line maintenance meaning no trains from Euston after around 6pm leaving no time to guarantee getting back from Wembley to Euston in time for it!

SingAlongAndItMightJustGetYouThrough · 27/04/2023 13:57

"United fans come from all over the country.
Stupid to say none will be coming from Manchester."

Whoooosh 🤣🤣🤣

jay55 · 27/04/2023 14:47

Every coach company in the land will be rubbing their hands and putting on services.