…you’ll be charged extra on top of the GDP of an African nation that you’re already coughing up to use the over-burdened and dirty transport system. BASTARDS! timely article though as we shall see: I’m telling you this because my return trip into work which typically (on non cycling days) costs between £2 and £4 depending on what options I choose wrt. comfort/timeliness etc. cost me 8 pounds today through no fault of my own. It seems the readers at White City were on the blink or something so my touching at that end wasn’t registered (stop sniggering). That’s nearly twice as much as I paid for Double Nickels on The Dime from Amazon Z-Shops yesterday and that’s coming all the way from America (though admittedly it’s taking 9 days to get here and it’s coming in a small brown envelope which wouldn’t really be practical transport for commuting purposes).

Also, why can’t they …

1. … have weekly and monthly caps on Oyster cards like they have daily caps? i.e. if I spend more than a monthly travel card in a calendar month don’t charge me more.
2. … email me a monthly or weekly statement? Given that they’re already tracking my every movement and emailing me about it they could do something useful with that info.
3. Also I hate that I’m penalised by not being able to get a cheap travel card. I don’t use the tube every day so there’s no point me getting a weekly travel card (though a weekly statement might prove me wrong) but daily travel cards are more if you travel before 9:30 which I have to do in order to get to my job which typically starts at 9:30

“I’ll put it in simple words…”