Howard is T & W's dg
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DAVID HOWARD, who has been in daily charge of Tyne and Wear PTE for the past year, is now its director-general.
Mr Howard, who was first the PTE's engineering director, and later its planning director before becoming acting director-general last year, succeeds Desmond Fletcher, the PTE's second director-general, who has retired.
Mr Howard is a native of Hampshire, who served in the Army until he left in 1966, having reached the rank of Major. He worked then at the former Ministry of Transport, and played a part in framing the 1968 Trans port Act which established the first English PTEs.
Mr Howard's appointment follows the opening of the PTE's Metro extension to South Shields and comes at a time when plans are being advanced to extend the system to Washington new town and to Newcastle Airport.
He has been responsible for much of the detailed development of the Metro since it was first agreed upon in the early seventies.