(09 Dec 2025, 10:59 am)URMF1254 wrote 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.

In London, people use bank cards for one off journeys. I go to London to visit my place of work and use my bank card . I claim the Tube fares on expenses. However, if I lived there, I would probably purchase a monthly ticket , which would be on my Oyster card. 

BTW, isn’t the tech that POP uses, the same as Oyster? It’s just different branding.