but the industrial action continues. i spoke to commuters at basingstoke station in hampshire this morning. i actually usually get the train from alton, so i have actually had to get, like, a cab here, with no train running. obviously, if i can get to work, i don t get paid, so. - i am getting the train to farnborough, and my friends are picking me up from there. because there aren t any trains? yeah, no trains. but i support the strikes. so how did we get here? well, the rail industry faces pressure to cut costs. the government in effect took control of the railways during the pandemic, and the industry says changed travel habits have left a hole in its finances. the rmt says its dispute is partly about a pay rise being overdue, and also argues job security and working conditions are under threat from changes the rail employers and government are under threat from changes the rail employers and government say are needed to make the railway sustainable. and those points are interlinked
share anthony: so you re watching each other s work go by. futura 2000: absolutely. but it was anthony: art lovers! this was his museum. where he and his fellow artists would meet and exchange ideas and admire each other s work. and it s jarring, coming to learn all those years later that it was really all about this. about a few seconds, as their pieces rode by to be evaluated by peers. there for a moment, then gone. like, well, all of their work from that time long since removed or painted over. futura 2000: ultimately, the legacy, they re not here. here s our legacy. you know, we don t have a movement anymore. the movement has been given to the world. and if you go to trains in milan and, you know, paris, or wherever, you know, certainly not the russian system, but you know, if you go to some of these cities around the world, they re bombed. you know, their their rail systems are destroyed. futura 2000: but i mean, today, if i could have a train running anthony
morning of quite wet across the south east corner of the country but only brightens up much of england and wales, stays blustery for scotland, northern ireland, the far north of england with a view showers at times. thursday it says quite cloudy across england and wales, further ripples of rain running into the south west, could be localised flooding in places, the ground pretty saturated across the south west. sunshine, blustery showers in the north.
interesting. i guess we landed on ritsy, glamorous felt too much. but serviceable. an upgrade from what it was. you can move around it pretty well. if you re used to the old laguardia, it s small. it was important to point out just the engineering marvel. they didn t shut it down when they built on top of it a new one. that is a marvel. and you can see driving by the last couple of years, it was sort of like working in ground zero keeping the one train running. it s incredible how the city manages public works projects. this started in 2005. right i was at the magazine then, and part of the reason it started, in some ways, a magazine feature could be a big service feature. a list of things. but the other thing that was happening then, and this leads to my question about what s happening now, it was very much