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All 11 lines of the London Underground network are due to be shut down by this week’s tube strikes.
Members of RMT , Unite and TSSA will walk out on Wednesday for 24 hours from 6.30pm, and members of Aslef , which represents tube drivers, will walk out for 24 hours from 9.30pm.
This represents the most severe disruption to the network since 2002, and people using the service can expect delays.
The public bicycle hire scheme, sponsored by Santander and commonly known as "Boris Bikes", was launched in July 2010.
To see where your nearest station is, see the interactive map below:
Despite the nickname, plans for the scheme were announced by then Mayor, Ken Livingstone, in August 2007.
One of the key reasons for this week's strikes is the introduction of the night Tube, which unions are concerned could bring unfair working conditions.
Union members say that London Underground staff are being offered a 0.75 per cent pay increase this year, and they claim that this is not enough to compensate for the increase in night shifts that the night Tube will bring.
"If London Underground was seriously interested in the night Tube they would have put together a more serious proposal," rail workers' union Aslef's district organiser Finn Brennan told The Independent .
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commuteShow all 13 1 /13Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Sam Wallace, Football Correspondent "I still play pub cricket when I'm on A-roads. Any pub with a name that includes something with legs (eg, fox and hounds, coach and horses) you get a run per leg. Pass a pub with a name that does not reference anything with a leg and you lose a wicket. As kids we used play against each other, with the pubs divided up according to which side of the car you were on and which side of the road the pubs were."
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Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Ibrahim Salha, SEO Editor "Equally addictive as it is fist-bitingly difficult, Flappy Bird is so playable you’ll easily forget that you were meant to be at work the best part of three hours ago. Bonus: you’ll feel positively tranquil about the tube delays after falling to your death for the fiftieth time in a row."
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Felicity Morse, social media editor "I try and turn all the tube stations into foods: eg 'Nutting Mill Gate, Pie Street Ken, Parsons Nose'. It whets my appetite for supper/breakfast."
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Louisa Saunders, Associate Features Editor "The quizup app is totally addictive, with sets of question on everything from Mean Girls to economics. You can play your friends, too"
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Kashmira Gander: Online news reporter Dreaming of warmer climes while you’re surrounded by stressed, sweating commuters becomes a little easier with HitList. This app allows users to create a global bucket-list of potential holidays, made realistic by it only allowing you to choose from places that friends live, have visited or want to go. It then sends you alerts when airplane prices drop to an affordable level.
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Simon Usborne, Independent Feature Writer "Pocket’s a brilliant read later app. On Chrome you have a button. On your phone it’s an option when you hold down on a link. Or if you’re offline you can email something to your Pocket. Then your Pocket app presents the stories in easy-to-read, offline form. SO you can catch up with stuff you’ve been meaning to read while on the Tube or plane or wherever."
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Stuart Henderson, Online News Editor "I spend my time playing assorted games – Scrabble being the current favourite – intertwined with a low-level guilt that I should actually be spending my time more productively. Like reading or something."
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Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Ian Burrell: Media Editor "News in Slow Spanish; it’s the week’s international news read out in Spanish, slowly, so you get to gen up on what’s happening and learn some vocabulary at about the same pace you will probably be travelling http://www.newsinslowspanish.com/"
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute James Vincent: Science and Technology correspondent "My favourite is Radiolab. Two American guys (Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich) tell a story about something. Anything. Usually with a sciencey edge, but always revealing about some unexplored aspect of life. Abumrad even got one of those MacArthur genius grants for his work…"
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Joe Krishnan: Apprentice I have a three-hour round trip each day so have to do something to keep me occupied. Here’s what I do. - Sleep: Unsurprisingly, five minutes in sleep time can be an hour in real time, so the journey goes quite fast when I’ve nodded off. - Music: Make a playlist with around 10-15 songs that you like. It’s over before you even know it, 45 mins gone just like that. Best option if you’re standing. - Watch a film: Rather much like music, you become so absorbed in the film that you forget how much time is passing. - Reading a book/magazine: As long as you don’t suffer from travel sickness, reading is best time passer. - Make conversation with a stranger? A bit of small-talk never hurts anyone, does it?
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Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Katie Guest: Literary Editor of the Independent on Sunday "Read a book! Penguin Shorts are good for commuting (digital short fiction, £1.99 each)"
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Chloe Hamilton: Editorial Assistant Read the Independent!
Tube strikes: Ways to kill time on your commute Joseph Charlton: Assistant Editor at Independent Voices "I test myself on the order of stations on different lines. I can do the whole of Victoria and Circle (easy), Northern (High Barnet branch only). It’s quite a boring game, admittedly."
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