UK: LONDONERS RETURN HOME AFTER TERROR ATTACKS BRING PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM TO STANDSTILL.

Record ID: 352131

  • Title: UK: LONDONERS RETURN HOME AFTER TERROR ATTACKS BRING PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM TO STANDSTILL.
  • Date: 8th July 2005
  • Summary: (W5) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 7, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: PEOPLE MAKING THEIR WAY HOME ON FOOT AS BUS DRIVES PAST (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. CU: EMPTY TOP DECK ON BUS AT BUS STOP 0.11 3. MV/CU: MORE OF CROWDED FOOTPATHS, SMILING PEOPLE 0.24 4. GV: TAXIS AND TRAFFIC DRIVING PAST PEDESTRIANS 0.32 5. GV/CU: WOMAN TALKING
  • Embargoed: 23rd July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVAE6QYHY0A6UUWMMOZNSAR7LSKE
  • Story Text: Londoners make their way home, undaunted by the
    bombings that killed at least 37 and brought public
    transport to a standstill.



    Every business day, millions of workers, students
    and tourists commute into central London on public
    transport.

    Many of those people were left stranded when the London
    Underground and bus services were shutdown after the series
    of bomb attacks on the underground and a bus on Thursday
    (July 7) morning wreaked havoc on the city's transport
    systems.

    Footpaths were packed with those who decided to walk
    home, the roads choked with cars and taxis as commuters
    found whatever means they could to leave London.

    Buses began running again late in the afternoon, but the
    passengers who chose to use them, avoided the top deck of
    the city's famous double deckers. Police earlier in the
    day said it was possible the bomb on the Number 30 bus from
    Hackney to Marble Arch was detonated on the upper deck
    towards the rear of the bus.

    Many people, denied their normal tube home, found
    themselves in strange surroundings above ground and needed
    map books to work out where they were and how far they had
    to go.

    Some decided to wait out the crush with a drink at one
    of London's many thousands of pubs, sending text messages
    home saying they would be late.

    For others, life went on as normal, keeping appointments
    with the hairdresser - the sheer size of London meant that
    some people not far from bomb sites seemed completely
    unaffected by the nearby devastation.



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