Tyne & Wear Metro: urban rail unleashed

The Metro is the bone structure of Tyne & Wear’s identity, economy and daily life – and it’s Britain’s innovation railway too
  
There’s two key elements to a successful urban rail network – best use of emerging technology and local decision makers who embody the spirit of civic entrepreneurialism. That is the capacity to be quick thinking, bold and financially shrewd but with the good of the city as a whole in mind rather than narrow commercial