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The queue at the Liverpool Street station taxi rank is growing.
Finance worker Anthony Craft was waiting for a taxi with two friends.
He said: ‘Typically our journey home takes around 30-40 minutes but now it’s looking like an hour and a half, so not very pleasant.’
His friend Joe Carter, who owns Pure Health Care recruitment firm, said: ‘We are waiting for an Uber, a Bolt and a black cab, so contingency planning.’
The pair said they are already seeing surge pricing on the apps.
‘It’s £60-£70 to get back to Woodford in Essex,’ Joe said, adding that the journey usually costs around £30.
He continued: ‘We usually get on the Weaver line and that was supposedly meant to be okay today and it was just meant to be the Tube strike. But unfortunately there’s a signal failure on the Weaver line, of all days. No Central line, no Weaver line, so we should have worked from home.’
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