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| An all-night service on the London Underground (LU) will not be introduced this year after talks broke up without agreement, unions have claimed. | |
| The Night Tube was due to begin last month but was delayed over a dispute about staff pay and conditions. | |
| Finn Brennan, from train drivers' union Aslef, said discussions had broken up because LU management had "mishandled these negotiations". | |
| Transport for London (TfL) has not commented yet. | Transport for London (TfL) has not commented yet. |
| A 24-hour service on the Jubilee, Victoria, Piccadilly, Central and Northern lines had been due to start at weekends on 12 September. | |
| Unions took industrial action during the summer having called for increased pay and a limit on how many all-night shifts their members would be asked to do. | |
| 'Perpetual dithering' | |
| London Mayor Boris Johnson has previously said he was "relaxed" about when the service was introduced, as long as it happened before the end of autumn. | |
| Mr Brennan said unions had "put forward a number of proposals to resolve this dispute" but these had been "rejected". | |
| "They [London Underground] have wasted every opportunity for a settlement and seem to have been determined to provoke confrontation rather than resolution," he said. | |
| Mick Cash, from the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), said it was a "no-win situation" for Londoners and Tube staff and called for the talks to get back on track. | |
| "RMT is frankly astounded that Boris Johnson has rung his officials from Japan and instructed them to kick the Night Tube into next year," he said. | |
| Labour London Assembly Member Val Shawcross said the decision was a "major disappointment to businesses and Londoners" and accused Mr Johnson of "perpetual dithering over the project". | |
| TfL first announced plans for the Night Tube in September 2014 and said trains would run on Fridays and Saturdays with six trains per hour through central London on five Tube lines. | |
| On the Northern Line, there would have been eight trains an hour to meet demand at busy stations between Leicester Square and Camden Town, TfL said. | |
| LU claims the Night Tube is needed to deal with huge demand from passengers, especially at weekends, and is "pivotal" to the city's economy. Chancellor George Osborne and Mr Johnson said it would add £6.4bn to the London economy by 2030 and create 500,000 new jobs. | |
| It was also announced in February the night-time services would be extended to the Metropolitan, Circle, District, and Hammersmith & City lines by 2021 and extended to the London Overground in 2017 and the Docklands Light Railway by 2021. |