Captions

1

Expanding the port at a new site downstream.

2

Redesigning the riverside comes next.

3

Heavy industries and city houses pollute the River Nervion.

4

City Council and others realize ‘something must be done’.

5

Unemployment, crime and poverty grow.

6

Cleaning up the river takes priority.

7

Linking the Metro with tram and bus routes.

8

Getting people and their cars off the road and onto the Metro reduced congestion.

9

Building an eye-catching focus in the city centre helped.

10

Building a new airport to cope with tourist and business trade.

11

Steel making and shipbuilding do well, but then decline.