People are being advised not to travel on the railways as workers continue strikes on Saturday.
Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT, the UK's largest rail union, said on Friday that both sides involved in the dispute needed to "work quickly" to end the strikes.
The RMT is involved in two negotiating battles, one with Network Rail, where it represents around 20,000 signallers and maintenance workers, and the other with the Rail Delivery Group, where it represents a similar amount of workers at 14 train companies. "They have shown how important their work is to the functioning of the economy and wider society," he said.The Met Office has issued yellow warnings for snow and ice in the majority of Scotland, Wales, and much of England for Sunday.
He said: "Some of the people most affected by strikes, particularly on the railways, are not people who can sit at home behind their computer but the hospital porter, the cleaner, who have to physically go to work." From Monday to Wednesday, Springboard said footfall was 5.2% lower on all UK High Streets compared with the same days in 2021.
She added that "clearly footfall is affected by a number of reasons", but highlighted a drop in footfall on the days of the strikes, particularly in central London.
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