Metro Line will Close Temporarily During the October Half Term,

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Nexus, will close a popular metro line temporarily to carry out essential maintenance work. While closure will be during the school’s half term break, it may still cause disruption for many commuters.

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00:00Frequent replacement bus services will be running instead but customers are advised to plan ahead

00:05and allow extra time when travelling through affected areas.

00:08We wanted to know how users of the Metro system feel about the temporary closure.

00:14It could affect us in many ways. I think there will be quite some trouble.

00:20It won't affect me whatsoever, but it will affect people going to work.

00:28Nexus is carrying out the planned closure during the October half-term break to minimise disruption

00:33where they will carry out other important work.

00:35Stuart Clarke, Nexus' Infrastructure Director, has said this is a significant modernisation project

00:41and part of our multi-million pound asset renewal programme

00:44and that they are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused for their customers.

00:50I've just recently gotten a ticket after two years

00:54and I don't really, I don't find any need to do the Metro now.

00:58I used to do it on a regular basis some years ago, going to Fellin, to the Fellin station,

01:05but now I don't find I do a bus. A bus is more, as I might say, convenient.

01:11On a daily basis, going to work, depending on which route they're going to,

01:17if they're going over Newcastle or South Shields, somewhere like that,

01:22I dare say it's quick and once you're on, you go to your destination.

01:29Well, we'll miss it because I go shopping quite a lot in there.

01:32If I was on a permanent basis, which I used to do, six days a week,

01:38I wouldn't be very happy jumping off and on buses, you know,

01:42but then again, it's where you come from and where you're going.

01:46While Nexus have tried to minimise disruption,

01:49the closure clashes with Newcastle United's Carabao Cup game with Chelsea at St James' Park

01:54on the 29th October, but the line will be back open for Newcastle to play Arsenal.

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