KarmaCycle: Oyster card

Monday 8 March 2010

Oyster card - tip

I know this is nothing to do with cycling. I took the bus at the weekend and tried to swipe my Oyster Card. It didn't work. After holding up the bus for about 3 minutes and getting a bit flustered, I used real money. The bus driver looked at my card and pointed out that there was a small cut in the card, which made it impossible to swipe. God only knows how it got cut, but it did, and now it won't work. Beware of cutting your card. If you're abroad and have no idea what I'm on about - the Oyster card let's you travel by bus and underground train - you can put money in it.

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The Cycle of Karma

When you're cycling around 100 miles a week through London, you develop some strange notions. The one I can't get out of my head is that you build up karma - good and bad - depending on how you cycle. So - if you stop at red lights, wait politely for pedestrians, smile at cars, you get rewarded - the next light turns green for you straight away, someone smiles back at you - you get the picture. Of course this doesn't always work, but it works often enough for me to try to cycle by those rules. Most of the time.