MPTE Walrus Smart Card

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RE: MPTE Walrus Smart Card

(14/10/2015 09:43)Enviro400 Wrote:  Why have Merseytravel gone about developing their own card system if the TfL system is so efficient and great? Surely it would make sense for Merseytravel to work with TfL on deploying a scaled-back version of Oyster on Merseyside? It isn't like they are in competition, and TfL could recover some of their development costs, especially if the Oyster 'model' was the standard across the country. It seems strange that Merseytravel have gone to all the trouble to build something from the ground-up when there is a working system elsewhere which could be adapted to other areas.

Purely because the Oyster is already dated, they're already seeking to replace infrastructure put in place when the scheme was first implemented.