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‘Nightmare’ Hyde Park Corner overcrowding & Tube strike pledge

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It was a “nightmare” before Christmas at Hyde Park Corner tube station with “unsafe” scenes caused by train delays and “staggering levels of criminal and antisocial behaviour” from some people apparently returning from the Winter Wonderland event. 

TfL is investigating after a station worker described how dozens of people at a time barging through ticket barriers, plus threats to assault staff when asked to stop vaping in the station, during the incident earlier this month.

It came as new laws went on the statute books requiring minimum service levels on strike days - just in time for a potential New Year strike by RMT members.

You can hear Evening Standard transport editor Ross Lydall’s interview with transport secretary Mark Harper on strike strategy, plus his latest analysis on the Hyde Park Corner station chaos.

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