(04 Apr 2020, 11:41 am)Ds1197 wrote I think the pop card was meant to be a bit like an
Oyster card but the bus companies thought that gave Nexus to much power. The is the smartzone but that's only in one town or city
I think a big part of it was because each of the big 3, plus Nexus all applied for a slice of the funding to launch the smart cards. All 3 got a slice and all 3 introduced their own system.
No joined up thinking at all.
If it was and a common sense approach had been taken, we could have had a system which was efficient, convenient and reliable like Oyster.