An exciting future for Metro

Nexus boss Cathy Massarella tells us how a fresh vision for the Tyne and Wear Metro is taking shape
 Cathy Massarella, managing director of Nexus
 
It’s almost 45 years since the Tyne and Wear Metro first opened, heralding a public transport revolution in North East England. It was a light rail system that was built against all the odds. Local leaders in the early 1970s had a vision and they managed to pull it off, beating a host of larger UK cities to the prize.Metro put our reg