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The future of any city-region depends on the best transport networks to allow its people to move around easily, to smooth the wheels of business, to let the streets breathe.
More than 40 million passengers use Metro every year, to reach work and education, health services, shops and beaches, restaurants and sports activities.
Nexus has won Government funding for a detailed business plan to ‘re-invigorate’ Metro over the next 10 years. We will be investing more than £300m in this plan, called Metro: All Change
Metro: All Change will see stations and trains modernised and millions spent on renewing track, overhead lines, communications and technology systems, bridges, tunnels and other structures.
This area contains details of what the Metro: All Change programme will entail and why its money very well spent for the future of North East England and its people.
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| Nexus to invest half a million pounds on new footbridge and lifts at Benton Metro station. |
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Nexus is to invest half a million pounds installing a new footbridge and passenger lifts at Benton Metro station in North Tyneside. ...read full story
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| £580 million funding gives Metro a world-class future. |
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The Government has confirmed today it will award Nexus around £580 million to modernise and operate the Tyne and Wear Metro. ...read full story
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| Nexus announces details of Metro: all change modernisation programme |
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Metro passengers can look forward to a step change in travel over the next three years thanks to detailed modernisation plans unveiled by the system’s owner today. ...read full story
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| Nexus names final two bidders for Metro operations contract. |
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Nexus, which owns, manages and is modernising the Tyne and Wear Metro, today announced the names of the final two bidders shortlisted for a contract to operate trains and stations on its behalf. ...read full story
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| Bidders invited to register interest in Metro operations contract. |
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Nexus, owner of the Tyne and Wear Metro, today invited potential bidders to declare an interest in a contract to run the Operations side of the business on its behalf. ...read full story
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| Rail industry invited to find out more about £350 million Metro modernisation programme and market-testing of operations. |
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Nexus, the owner of the Tyne and Wear Metro, is to invite leading companies in rail industry to Newcastle on 9 September 2008 to find out more about its £350 million modernisation programme for Metro. ...read full story
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| Metro Re-invigoration garners cross-party support. |
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The £600m bid for Metro Re-invigoration won cross-party support at the North East Economic Forum last week. ...read full story
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| £50m to be invested in Metro in next two years. |
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More than £50 million will be invested in the modernisation of Metro over the next two years, the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority said today. ...read full story
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