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| Big new Metro park-and-ride to open on 1 December. |
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Metro’s newest multi-storey car park is to open on 1 December, Nexus announced today. ...read full story
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| Nexus asks for local views on bus plans for South Tyneside. |
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Local people in Jarrow, Boldon and West Shields are to be asked their views on a new plan for the bus network in South Tyneside. ...read full story
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| Essential public transport information for the Christmas period. |
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Essential public transport information for Christmas and New Year 2008. ...read full story
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| Metro to launch new health and safety campaign in a bid to cut minor accidents on the system |
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Metro is to launch a hard hitting health and safety campaign aimed at passengers in a bid to reduce the number of minor accidents on the system. ...read full story
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| Nexus plans to improve access to Monkseaton Metro. |
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Nexus has submitted plans to improve access to Monkseaton Metro station. ...read full story
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| Nexus improves access at Fellgate Metro station. |
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Nexus has installed new passenger Help Points at Fellgate Metro to assist passengers when the lifts are out of order. ...read full story
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| Nexus asks views on bus plan for South Tyneside |
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Local people are to be asked their views on a new plan for the bus network in South Tyneside at sessions in Jarrow this Friday. ...read full story
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| Nexus news Winged, silver living stunning Silver Arrows services. |
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At 11am on Thursday, October 30 in Market Square, Sunderland, two winged living statues – glistening in silver from head to toe and bearing bows and arrows - will herald the arrival of Go North East’s brand new Mercedes bus services – the Silver Arrows. ...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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| Nexus subsidises bus route for Fairways Estate |
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Nexus is to subsidise a useful community bus service for a further year. ...read full story
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| Metro services suspended Chillingham Road to St James until 12.30pm on Sunday 26 October. |
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Metro services will be suspended from the start of service until 12.30pm on Sunday 26 October between Chillingham Road and St James Metro stations to allow for essential engineering works. ...read full story
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| Events to commemorate Danny Marshall |
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Two events are to be held in Newcastle next month to honour the life and achievements of Danny Marshall, former Lord Mayor of Newcastle and Chairman of the Passenger Transport Authority. ...read full story
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| Metro has won four national prizes. |
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Tyne and Wear Metro has won four national prizes at the 2008 UK Light Rail Awards. ...read full story
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| Metro completes £600,000 scheme to renew all five of its level crossings. |
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A £600,000 project to renew all five level crossings on the Metro system has been successfully completed and will ensure they are in excellent working condition for many years to come. ...read full story
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| Gateshead Interchange back to normal Tuesday October 14. |
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Gateshead Interchange will be back to normal for bus passengers Tuesday 14 October as resurfacing work finishes three weeks ahead of schedule. ...read full story
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| Buses are Getting Better |
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A new advertising campaign has been launched to promote the benefits of bus travel, as commuters look for cheaper alternative to the car during the credit crunch. ...read full story
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| Metro fare dodgers face much tougher court fines. |
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Metro prosecuted 494 people for fare evasion during September, netting fines and costs totalling £161,000, and all those who were caught are now facing higher court fines. ...read full story
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| Nexus welcomes new bus station for Washington Galleries. |
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People in Washington are seeing a huge difference in their bus travel as the new Galleries bus station officially opened. ...read full story
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| Public transport website gets record hits |
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More than 115,000 a month are visiting public transport website www.nexus.org,uk to find out about bus, Metro rail and ferry in Tyne and Wear. ...read full story
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| Metro records best ever times at Sunday’s Great North Run |
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Metro saw a record breaking 55,000 passengers board trains between South Shields and Newcastle for Sunday’s Great North Run.
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| Nexus is to run special Shields Ferry tours for people to view the QE2 on the Tyne |
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Nexus is to run special trips on the Shields ferry for people to view the QE2 when she arrives on the Tyne on Wednesday 8 October. ...read full story
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| Simonside Metro station used by over 130,000 people in its first six months |
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Metro’s newest station at Simonside on South Tyneside has been used by more than 130,000 people in the six months since it first opened. ...read full story
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| Bus park-and-ride plans for Tyne and Wear |
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The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority has endorsed plans for £15.3 million of improvements to bus routes. ...read full story
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| UPDATE: Gateshead resurfacing, bus stands move. |
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Resurfacing at Gateshead Interchange enters its final phase on Monday, 29 September. ...read full story
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| Nexus launches new graduate development programme. |
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Nexus has launched its first ever graduate development programme to attract the very best skills from around the UK and Europe. ...read full story
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| Nexus takes part in National Fraud Initiative 2008. |
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Nexus is to supply information it holds on concessionary passholders to the Government’s Audit Commission as part of a national data matching project. ...read full story
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| Transport Secretary leads train naming to honour the late Barbara Castle. |
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Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly today joined the family of Barbara Castle to help name a Northern Rail train after the late Labour MP and first woman Transport Minister. ...read full story
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| Crime on Metro falls for a fifth successive year. |
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Crime on the Tyne and Wear Metro has fallen for a fifth successive year, with incidents of assaults down by 20 percent and robberies down by almost 40 percent. ...read full story
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| Metro services to Newcastle Airport have resumed. |
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Metro services to Newcastle Airport returned to normal on the morning of Thursday September 18. ...read full story
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| New lift begins work at Sunderland. |
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A new passenger lift at Sunderland station’s south concourse came into service today, 16 September 2008. ...read full story
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| Young people quiz experts on climate change. |
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Young people from across the region will this week get to quiz experts over the measures needed to tackle climate change at an event in North Tyneside. ...read full story
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| "Ten" good reasons for using new bus. |
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There are "Ten" good reasons for using the bus between Greenside, Ryton, Blaydon and Newcastle, after new investment by Go North East in the busy commuter route. ...read full story
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| Benton Metro station footbridge reopens. |
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The footbridge at Benton Metro station has now reopened to passengers. ...read full story
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| Nexus hails market update event for Metro a success |
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Almost 100 leading figures from the rail, engineering industry attended a successful Market Update event organised by Nexus to take forward its Metro: All Change investment programme. ...read full story
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| Thousands of children sign up for cheaper travel |
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Nexus today reported a big surge in applications for its Under 16 Card – as parents and children make sure they can enjoy cheaper public transport. ...read full story
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| Metro services suspended until further notice Kingston Park to Newcastle Airport due to flooding |
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Metro services between Newcastle Airport and Kingston Park will be suspended until further notice due to the weekend’s flooding, the worst seen on the Metro system since 1994. ...read full story
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| Passenger Transport Authority Members’ Visit 2008 |
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There was plenty for the members of the Tyne and Wear Passnger Transport Authority to see on their annual Nexus visit. ...read full story
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| Nexus names and shames Metro fare dodgers |
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Nexus prosecuted 407 people during August for Metro fare evasion, netting fines and costs £47,000. ...read full story
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| Quaylink passenger numbers reach new high |
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The number of people using the Quaylink bus has risen 21% in the last year to almost 800,000 – a new record for the low-emission city centre service. ...read full story
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| Parents urged: get Nexus Under 16 applications in now. |
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Parents are being urged to get their children’s applications for Nexus Under 16 Cards in now ahead of the start of the new school term. ...read full story
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| Resurfacing work at Gateshead Interchange |
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Buses using Gateshead Interchange will be calling at different stands for up to 10 weeks while roads within the bus station are resurfaced. ...read full story
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| All mobility scooters banned from Metro. |
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All mobility scooter use has been banned on the Tyne and Wear Metro following a series of accidents in which users and other passengers could have been killed or seriously injured. ...read full story
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| Nexus changes Whitley Bay minibus services. |
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Local minibus services in Whitley Bay are changing from 1 September to better match demand in different neighbourhoods. ...read full story
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| Man ordered to pay £337.50 for drinking alcohol on Metro. |
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A 21 year old man has had what was probably the most expensive drink of his life after being fined £262.50 and ordered to pay £75 court costs for drinking alcohol on the Metro. ...read full story
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| Nexus launches new Birtley Taxi-Bus. |
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A new Taxi-Bus will run six times a day connecting neighbourhoods in Birtley Northside with the centre of the Gateshead village. ...read full story
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| Whitley Bay Metro station to host Green Festival. |
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Whitley Bay Metro station is the venue for North Tyneside’s first ever Green Festival on Saturday August 30. ...read full story
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| Metro sets new record for running trains on time. |
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Tyne and Wear Metro was the best performing rail operator in the UK last year, new figures show. ...read full story
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| First of three new escalators enters service at Haymarket Metro station. |
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The first of three new escalators at Haymarket Metro station entered passenger service today as the £20m redevelopment of the station really starts to take shape just a year after the works first started. ...read full story
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| 100,000 young people could miss out on cheaper travel. |
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Up to 100,000 children and young people are missing out on cheap bus and Metro travel because they do not have a Nexus Under 16 Card. ...read full story
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| Important information for Newcastle United season ticket holders about the Magpie Mover. |
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Newcastle United season ticket holders are today being advised that applications for Magpie Mover tickets will be held up due to the delay in posting out the new season tickets. ...read full story
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| Nexus appoints a new Director of Finance. |
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The Tyne and Wear Metro operator, Nexus, has appointed a new Director of Finance and Resources. John Fenwick has joined from the Northumbria Probation Service, where he was Director of Finance, ICT and Performance for the past five years.
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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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| British Transport Police campaign to tackle cycle thefts in the North East. |
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Cyclists in the area are being given the chance to make their bikes more secure thanks to a scheme being run by British Transport Police. ...read full story
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| Get closer to nature by bus, Metro and train |
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Explore the natural delights around Newcastle without using the car. Here’s a Nexus guide to wildlife and countryside destinations easy to reach by bus and Metro. ...read full story
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| Comedians inspired by Metro. |
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Every day life on Metro has inspired two comedians who are taking their act to New York. ...read full story
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| Nexus appoints the first ever woman to manage the Shields Ferry. |
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Nexus has appointed the first ever woman to manage the Shields Ferry service in its proud 700 year history. ...read full story
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| New community bus network for South Tyneside launched. |
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Up to 30,000 passengers a year across South Tyneside are expected to benefit from a new community bus network launched today by Nexus, South Tyneside Council and Connect Community Transport. ...read full story
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| Nexus gives Metro passengers the chance to win some great prizes |
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Nexus is giving Metro passengers the chance to win a host of great prizes this summer as part of a free scratch card giveaway. ...read full story
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| We did it! Nexus secures multi-million pound funding for Metro Re-invigoration. |
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Nexus has secured more than £300 million commitment from Government to invest in the next phase of renewal and modernisation for the Tyne and Wear Metro. ...read full story
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| Metro fare cheats facing average court fines of £140. |
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Metro fare cheats are paying out average court fines of almost £140 for riding on the system without a ticket. ...read full story
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| Tyne river cruises on the Shields Ferry are more popular than ever. |
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Nexus said today that its summer cruises on the Tyne on board the Shields Ferry are proving more popular than ever before. ...read full story
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| Stagecoach offers to continue 33 bus service in Newcastle. |
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Stagecoach is to continue to run the 33 bus between Gosforth, Jesmond and Newcastle after representations from Nexus, local councillors and residents. ...read full story
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| Families and young people benefit from child fare shake up. |
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Tens of thousands of families will benefit from the biggest shake-up of child fares in Tyne and Wear for 10 years, agreed by the Passenger Transport Authority today. ...read full story
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| How Angela ditched her car for the bus. |
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As fuel prices and parking costs rise, more people are thinking about how they travel to work. ...read full story
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| Nexus boost local buses in Ryton and Rowlands Gill. |
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Nexus is to add new evening and weekend services to its popular local bus network in west Gateshead. ...read full story
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| Nexus invites local children to officially open new footbridge at Felling Metro station. |
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Nexus invited local school children along to open its new footbridge at Felling Metro station in Gateshead. ...read full story
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| Nexus unveils this year’s free Great Days Out Guide for Tyne and Wear. |
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Nexus has unveiled this year’s free Great Days Out guide, showcasing over a hundred places of interest on Tyneside and Wearside that can all be easily accessed by public transport. ...read full story
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| Nexus to name and shame Metro fare dodgers on its website. |
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Nexus is now naming and shaming Metro fare dodgers on its website. ...read full story
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| Nexus displays the latest giant graffiti murals at Chillingham Road Metro station. |
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Nexus has erected the latest set of stunning graffiti murals on its dedicated display boards at Chillingham Road Metro station in Newcastle. ...read full story
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| Metro Re-invigoration timeline. |
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Metro Re-invigoration: the timeline of how the programme of re-invigorating the Metro will unfold. ...read full story
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| Metro Re-Invigoration: Metro’s proud history. |
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Metro Re-invigoration: Metro’s history between opening in 1980 and 2008. ...read full story
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| Metro Re-Invigoration: how the money will be spent. |
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How the money we receive from the Government will be spent. ...read full story
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| Metro Re-invigoration: business and the community views. |
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Why Metro matters to local business and community leaders. ...read full story
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| Metro Re-invigoration: your questions answered on Phase 2. |
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The Government has announced a commitment to investing over £300m in the renewal and modernisation of life-expired parts of Metro and, in addition, to supporting the continued operation of the system for the next nine years, starting in April 2010. ...read full story
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| Metro Re-invigoration: why Metro matters - users' views. |
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Why Metro matters – by the people who use it. ...read full story
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| Bus service improvements prompted by passenger views |
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Passengers can look forward to an even better service and some cracking fare deals on some of Go North East’s leading bus brands from Sunday, July 27. ...read full story
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| Nexus names and shames Metro fare dodgers. |
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Nexus prosecuted 388 people during June for fare evasion on the Metro, netting fines and costs totalling £62,000. ...read full story
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| Public transport arrangements for Mouth of the Tyne Festival. |
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Nexus has today announced the public transport arrangements for next weekend’s Mouth of the Tyne Festival, July 12 and July 13. ...read full story
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| Nexus crackdown snares nearly 600 Metro fare cheats during this year’s Hoppings Fair. |
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A crackdown on Metro fare evasion during this year’s Hoppings Fair in Newcastle saw 576 people caught travelling without a ticket. ...read full story
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| Nexus team scoop National Health and Social Care Award. |
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A project led by Nexus was named a winner in the national NHS Health and Social Care Awards last night, which recognise breakthrough ideas from people on the front-line to improve care and access to services. ...read full story
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