OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 1993 · 11 citations · 0 references
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The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rapid transit system which serves the Tyneside conurbation in North East England. The Metro was opened in stages between 1980 and 1984 and has a route length of 55 km (34.8 miles) with 44 stations. Now that Metro has been operational for several years, it was appropriate to investigate longer-term impacts and discover whether they have materialized. The study detailed in this Digest explored some of the longer-term effects of the Metro. It was a smaller study based on its predecessor study, and updated much of the earlier work. It focuses on two major aspects of the Metro: first, its operation and effects on travel patterns; and, secondly, the impacts of Metro on land use and development.