(18 Jan 2016, 4:50 pm)citaro5284 wrote Which I think it not that many based on the numbers who use the metro on a daily basis.

(18 Jan 2016, 5:04 pm)Adrian wrote Metro claimed that passenger numbers were up to 39,000,000, just a month before the 'Pop Pay as you Go' launch in November 2015. So without having knowledge of how many individual users that is, we'll assume that each user has made an average of 4 journeys.... that's still less than 0.02% of passengers actually using the 'Pay as you Go' technology. Which is shocking in my opinion, considering the amount of marketing they appear to have put in for it.

http://www.nexus.org.uk/news/item/metro-...39-million

Using the same assumption, and in absence of proper stats, it'd take over 150 years for 10% of the system's users to be using the card...

I wouldn't say it is that bad.
1000 people per month taking up the option, on a system that already accepts annual POP cards or Network Travel tickets which have been pre-paid.
Without knowing the percentage of passengers using just those two methods, I think the 0.02% line may be a little off the mark.

I do believe the roll-out has been hindered by bus operators not taking part in the scheme.

It would be interesting to compare like for like and see how what the take-up was for other smartcards was, two months after roll-out.