(12 May 2023, 8:15 pm)Storx wrote Can't disagree with that if I had to be honest, or at most, turned into the operator who runs the Metro. Everything else with Nexus always seems second thought at the best of time anyway imo.
This quote from a 2016 Chronicle article about the 20th Anniversary of the Nexus brand, from Andy Bairstow, who was the PTEs head of marketing in the 90s is rather ironic:
Our research showed that residents of Tyne and Wear saw the PTE as a bureaucratic organisation, maybe resting on its laurels after building the Metro, and frankly not very dynamic, though that’s not the way we saw it!
The irony is many people today probably think Nexus is still exactly like that, and probably far worse. IMO the Nexus brand, just like Arriva, Connex and Consignia brands, was more about attempting to promote style over substance. Anyhow I digress.