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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.
The rail industry has been invited to find out more about Metro modernisation programme and market-testing of its operations - further details are in the Business Plan and Periodic Information Notice.
Local people tell us what Metro means to them 
Metro chiefs explain the exciting plans to renew Metro
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| PTA and Nexus secure £12.9m to modernise Metro ticket machines. |
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The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority and Nexus today welcomed news they are to get £12.9m from the Government to install new ticket machines and barriers on Metro. |
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| Engineers signal importance of Metro reinvigoration. |
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The leading engineers' organisation has stated the importance of Metro reinvigoration to the future of North East England. |
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