(17 Feb 2021, 5:45 pm)streetdeckfan wrote To be fair, the Pop card is good for what it is. Which is basically a contactless bank card. You just top it up and pay.
Other than getting a Metro season ticket, there's nowt else it does.

I never understood why GNE didn't just work with NEXUS to allow tickets to be loaded onto a Pop card rather than having to have a separate Key card.

I'm sure Arriva and Stagecoach had their own separate smart card system as well. 

It would have made much more sense to have the one card that can be loaded with different tickets, like you say, you could load Network One tickets if you wanted multi-operator tickets.

Dunno I just think they took the complete wrong approach me, Pop to me is a metro season ticket, does anyone actually use the PAYG? Never seen anyone tbh.

The Robin Hood cards down in Nottingham are the way they should've been done imo - https://robinhoodnetwork.co.uk/pay-you-go-cards, dead simple pricing and there's caps it's basically what they're trying to do with the tap on tap off now by the looks of it without Nexus' help.

Then you've got the season tickets - https://robinhoodnetwork.co.uk/season-cards which are pretty much our Network One cards.

Simple and effective unlike Key Cards, Pop Card, Arriva Card, Network One, Buzz Zones, Arriva Triple Tickets, Smartzones, Stagecoach Megarider, Metro Season Tickets, Transfares, GNE local zones, Arriva Coastliner Tickets and the rest we've got.