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By building on the success of Metro, project orpheus can change the panorama for ever.cities, like people, need air to breathe. If a city’s main arteries are clogged and congested then, like human beings, they simply begin to fail.Tyne and Wear is facing that failure in the next few years, thanks to 20 years of growing car use and declining numbers using public transport. Nexus, the Tyne and Wear passenger Transport executive, has overseen the provision of quality public transport since the late sixties and in the last few years has unveiled a blueprint for the future of public transport entitled project orpheus. orpheus stands on the shoulders of the Tyne and Wear Metro, which has successfully served the people of the North for 25 years. Its success in bucking the trend of national public transport decline in recent years could be the key factor in persuading people to “modally shift” or leave their cars behind to access the cities of sunderland and Newcastle. economic regeneration will be hampered and stifled by chronic congestion; modal shift cannot occur without investment and rejuvenation of the existing landscape – and without planning and foresight the disadvantaged of our society will not have access to jobs, leisure and education. Without measures to address rising car ownership and increased pollution Tyne and Wear could be gripped by the kind of epidemic congestion now witnessed daily in the south of england by 2015 – or even sooner. By building on the success of Metro, project orpheus can change the panorama for ever. This document sets out how we got here, where we are today and, most importantly, our plans for the future in partnership with the people of Tyne and Wear.
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