Off Topic Newcastle Sunderland Airport

What U on about man..

 

Do you really want to go there???

 

Yes, Sunderland airport was an important base for spitfire and hurricane squadrons during ww2 and nëwçæstlë wasn't

 

facts we paid 50% for a metro system Newcastle swindled us by adding more cots to the budget for Newcastle's benefit

 

Rodger, I'm not here to make anyone look stupid, so please look it up. 75%

 

there are none so blind as those who will not see, TYNE AND WEAR we never wanted it in Sunderland and apart from the gov grant the rest 100 mill was a 50 50 partnership we got shafted for 20 years before it finally came to sunderland, we also paid towards the airport

 

Here we go then...

100 mill was a 50 50 partnership??

Really WTF

Lets have some real truth then... real truth not woke distorted **** try

Lets get in to it then

The financial viability of Metro was confirmed following extensive lobbying by the Tyne and Wear PTA, local authorities and politicians throughout the region by December 1972. The Government agreed to a 75% grant towards the cost of building the system. The construction of Metro began in 1974 and less than four years later after it came into existence, the Tyne and Wear PTE (which became Nexus in 1996) found itself responsible for developing the largest urban transportation project in Britain.


The system reached Gateshead in 1981, going as far as Heworth, and the North Tyne loop was completed in 1982. It was extended to South Shields in 1984 and to Newcastle Airport in 1991. The Sunderland line was opened in April 2002 at a cost £100m after a three year construction project.

50 50 partnership????

With who??

 

Early Doors

 

It's happening.....

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news...on-over-renaming-of-newcastle-airport-3285153

 

Gerrin

 

Tyne and Wear Airport Terminal.