The capital s roads were 85 per cent congested just after 9am - 50 per cent more than the same time this week - as commuters needing to be at work early got into their cars.
Pictures showed long lines of Londoners forming snaking queues at bus stops under grey skies and rain, while elsewhere commuters arrived at stations to find them shut.
Today s chaos has been caused by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), who are taking industrial action in a dispute over jobs and pensions.
Eddie Dempsey, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union s assistant general secretary, shared glowing praise for violent Luhansk rebel Aleksey Mozgovoy in an obituary following his death in 2015.