Transportation

Tube Strikes Keep Canary Wharf’s Workers Away as Chaos Persists

London Underground trains in a depot during a strike by Tube workers in London on Sept. 8.

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

London’s Canary Wharf financial district bore the brunt of the city’s train and Tube strikes on Tuesday, as many finance and banking professionals sought to avoid the travel chaos that engulfed the capital.

The number of people in Canary Wharf on Tuesday at 1 p.m. plunged 31% from a week earlier, according to data from mobile provider O2. That compares with a 16% fall across central London.