(09 Dec 2025, 12:18 am)Storx wrote I really don't understand why we're pushing Pop.

The thing should be scrapped with a new system brought in with Network One, Day Rovers, Metro Season Tickets, Metro Gold Cards, Junior Blue and all the other nonsense that's around abolished on the same date and it being under one system.

Is it really so hard to have a single system card like Oyster, 22 years after that was launched...

Pop imo is a NEXUS ticket so is extremely confusing for Northumberland / Durham, heck it's literally the Metro app.

I thought POP was going to become the Oyster card for our area. It’s tap on tap off on the Metro making the single fare cheaper plus it caps the fare to the cheapest for distance travelled. It’s already in Northumberland on the Ashington line. I thought I had read that an Oyster type card will become available on all modes, probably this will be POP.
Actually London seems to be moving away from Oyster and using bank cards for to-to. I still use Oyster because you can have a Railcard added which seems to reduce tube as well as rail fares. I was recently in Edinburgh and you can use tap tap cap on all Lothian buses and trams which was really handy. £5 for t t c and £5.50 for paper day ticket. I’m sure we will get this eventually.