The world is your Walrus

From the Octopus to the Oyster, the strangely maritime themes of the world's travel cardsLast week was a big one for Merseyside's transport nerds. After three years of planning, the Walrus – a contactless swipe card that allows travel on buses, trains, ferries and can even buy a coffee – finally launched. It is essentially a scouse version of London's Oyster card, itself a cockney cousin of Hong Kong's Octopus. The original touch-in-touch-out card from 1997, the Octopus also spawned the Orca...

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