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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to maintain the operation and maintenance of the Tyne & Wear Metro as a vertically integrated, wholly owned public sector company and to abandon all plans to fragment, privatise, franchise or contract out any part of its operations, maintenance or development. Furthermore to provide the necessary investment through government funding to upgrade, renew and extend Metro in line with the plans origionally proposed by NEXUS the Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive. More details
Submitted by Pete Woods of RMT Union – Deadline to sign up by: 02 September 2008 – Signatures: 261
Petition update, 09 October 2008
You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to " maintain the operation and maintenance of the Tyne & Wear Metro as a vertically integrated, wholly owned public sector company and to abandon all plans to fragment, privatise, franchise or contract out any part of its operations, maintenance or development. Furthermore to provide the necessary investment through government funding to upgrade, renew and extend Metro in line with the plans origionally proposed by NEXUS the Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page17116
Prime Minister's Office
More details from petition creator
TYNE & Wear Metro is a public-sector success story, achieving record levels of punctuality & ridership and should be kept that way, funding for an upgrade of the network is conditional on fragmenting & privatising Metro's operations & infrastructure. Nexus (Tyne & Wears Passenger Transport Executive)indicate that the government has insisted on the break-up, overruling the PTE's preferred option of maintaining Metro as a 'vertically integrated'railway. The model now proposed for Metro is in danger of repeating the mistakes of rail privatisation. Safety will be threatened as Metro will be fragmented into different sectors similar to the failed London Underground PPP, inevitably leading to a less efficient, more expensive railway which is why Nexus were originally opposed to the break up of Metro. Large amounts of fare revenue & public subsidy will be used to pay dividends to shareholders instead of being used to improve Metro for the benefit of passengers & of course Metro workers' pensions, jobs & conditions will be under threat as the private sector tries to maximise profits.
Current signatories
Pete Woods, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- John Holden (petitions.pm.gov.uk/Thereisnogod)
- Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHS-dentists4all/)
- Chris Welch
- Peter Wilson
- John Berwick
- Paul Rutland
- Lindsay RUtland
- B.J.Woods
- Andrew Wheatley (Unite Union workplace rep)
- Steven Russell
- Janine Booth
- Sean Geoghegan
- Thomas Bowman
- Jo Parry
- Alan Jary
- Mathew Partridge
- Matt Tomlinson
- Jed Bland
- Chris Hayes
- John Shackleton
- Tom Cowan
- Richard Veitch
- Dave Hughes
- Christopher Walker
- Hamish Drummond
- Philip Devonport
- Liz McKinnell
- Jamie Green
- Daniel Robertson
- David Gorton
- Alan Valentine
- Caspar Wynne
- D.Hood
- Johanna Montague-Reilly
- Tim Packer
- Dean Meakins
- Paul Good
- steve hedley
- Philip Fennell
- Chris O'Connor
- Kebba Jobe
- Peter Sheridan
- Paul Edgeworth
- Dave Harker
- DENIS HAWKINS
- Elaine Brunskill
- Richard Chapman
- Alex Gordon
- Derek Kotz
- stan herschel
- Peter Pinkney
- tony pierre
- Leanne Rowley
- John McGann
- Julie Pollock
- archie bell
- alan newham
- Phillip Becker
- Hugh Caffrey
- Trevor Cox
- James Brown
- Tommy Carroll
- Katie Sharratt
- George Graham
- James Farlam
- Sean Hurl
- terry lawrence
- Daniel Bell
- joyce stafford
- Ross Carbutt
- Vincent Thompson
- graeme cheek
- Sahil Raju Aggarwal
- Adrian O'Malley
- Martin Kearn
- graham myers
- Lowell Mills
- Matthew Vere
- Adam Hansen
- Hannah Reay
- diana durkin
- Emma Green
- RAY SMITH
- Cllr. George Waddle
- Michael Cooper
- Jared Wood
- Luci Mahon
- claire hunter
- Daniel Wilde
- Tony Bone
- linz
- Michelle Watson
- Sarah Greenwell
- Stuart Latham
- Helen Burdess
- Cain Thomason
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- Sharon Lancaster
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- Stephen Dobie
- claire morris
- Alan Mountain
- Craig Browning
- Richard Mason
- maxine murphy
- Clark Smith
- Dan Mullen
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- Matthew Dunn
- James Andrew Etherington
- Elenor Haven
- Mick Bowman
- Gillian Scott
- David Burgess
- Steven Dryden
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- Mark Hoskisson
- Adrian Alexander Oliver
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- Caroline Brunton
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- Dawn Mulvaney
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- Stuart Abram
- Sally Anne Young
- Julie bateman
- Dan Stokoe
- james kirkup
- Neil Johnson
- Peter Bainbridge
- Hazel Plater
- Charles Pottins
- Patricia M Bond
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- Petrice Bestford
- Andrew Thornton
- Andrew Stafford
- craig wood
- Paul Hughes
- Leon
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- Kevin Beavis
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- mark storey
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- S M Easton
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- Dawn Eggleston
- Joe McLachlan
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- Alan Brown
- Richard Kotter
- Thomas Mitchell
- ANDY LIE
- Paul Turnbull
- F.Phillips
- Dermot Killingley
- Bob Potts
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- margaret pomfret
- Norman Hall
- Juan Guerrero
- Sylvia Harding
- Dr Shobha Srivastava
- John Hutchinson
- Stephen Dodd
- Jamie Newton
- Albert Volta
- p watson
- j watson
- Lucy Lee
- jane wilkinson
- Patricia Burn
- Dennis Spires
- Peter Sagar
- John Eagle
- J. P. Farrow
- Alvin Dimes
- Gary Humphries
- VICKI GILBERT
- Philip Le Marquand
- Luke Golding
- Phil Wilson
- Tracey Hilbert
- W. Morauf
- Anne Turner
- CHERYL DONALDSON
- Keith Taylor
- Victoria O'Neil
- Peter Rand
- Ross Saunders
- Hannah Walter
- William Grigor McClelland
- Peter Smith
- Denise Robson
- Malcolm Toft
- julie roberts
- Barry Turnull
- margaret ward
- Kevin Gilmore
- Ricky Thamman
- Alan Fox
- shaun r appleby
- warren bone
- Stephen Gerard Scullion
- John Biggs
- Tom Collins
- Stephen Townsley
- Brid Fitzpatrick
- Tomasz Pierscionek
- Ben Sellers
- Alan Starforth
- C. J. Welsh
- Dawn Mary Starforth
- Daniel Starforth
- Stuart Starforth
- mary lorigan
- JESSICA TAYLOR HUNT
- Caroline Dean
- jamie andrews
- Kevin Rowan
- John Bourn
- David Spoors (Daily Metro User!)
- Rob Levy-
- Nick Dowson
- Ramon Corria
- David Murray
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- Catherine Porter
- Mr John Downey
- PETER HOWARD
- peter smith
- julie fowler
- Lesley Eagan
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- Barry Tunstall
- mr c barnes
- Peter McArdle
- Joseph Fathallah
- georgia white
- John Taylor
