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RegenerationYou are in: Tees > Places > Regeneration > Tees Valley Metro  Proposed Metro route Tees Valley MetroNo trams, no tunnels, but if you do the Marton Crawl every morning, the prospect of a metro is mouth-watering. It's a long way off, but if you're stuck on Marton Road, so is Middlesbrough centre. Tees Valley Regeneration's Chief Executive Joe Docherty runs us through the plans.
Help playing audio/video There’s one thing we can tell you about this plan. They’re keeping it simple.
We’ve tried to get a Metro network going on Teesside before and it never happened, so this time, they’re looking at a system that won’t need any lines laying and won’t cost the kind of money the government will never give us. The plan is to use the existing railway tracks from Saltburn to Darlington, make them run faster, make them run every fifteen minutes, and put more stops in. At the moment, it can take you well over an hour to get from Saltburn to Darlington. Under the new plans, they reckon they can get that down to less than 45 minutes. There will also be, to start with, five new stops along the way and shuttle buses linking the service with places like Hartlepool and Nunthorpe. If it gets the go-ahead, we can expect to see it up and running in the next six years or so. The estimated cost is £140m, but Tees Valley Regeneration, who are proposing the scheme, say £90m of that is money the rail network would have to fork out for work that needs doing anyway. Its early days yet, but the proposal is on Network Rail’s desk and we should find out early in 2008 whether it’s a goer. last updated: 22/04/2009 at 13:58 SEE ALSOYou are in: Tees > Places > Regeneration > Tees Valley Metro 5 DAY FORECAST
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