(18 Jan 2016, 9:34 pm)Adrian wrote It's difficult when you have no data on unique passenger numbers, but if you compare the timescale to that of Oyster. Public rollout in Q1 or 2004, and buses are no longer accepting cash fares come Q3 2014.
It'll be interesting to see how fast North East SmartZone is rolled out (including P&G fares), compared to the NECA scheme.
I wonder how many people end up with two cards?
POP for Metro, ANE and a couple of GNE services and another for bus trips?
A total farce and yet another example of how the deregulated, fragmented system doesn't benefit the passenger. A rival smartcard offer sums it all up.
I feel too much money has been spent, (both from public and private pots) for one of the systems to pull out now.
London worked so well, due to the integrated setup down there.
I would have been over the moon at POP being even half as quick/successful under a QCS scheme.