Patronage disappoints but QuayLink makes splash

This month we revisit QuayLink, four years on from its launch

Andrew Garnett
18 June 2009
The hybrid buses of QuayLink have become a distinctive addition to the landscape
The hybrid buses of QuayLink have become a distinctive addition to the landscape

 

Any visitor to Newcastle and Gateshead cannot help notice the distinctive yellow hybrid-powered  buses of the innovative QuayLink city centre bus service. Launched in the summer of 2005 with £7.7m of government funding by Newcastle City Council, Gateshead Council and Nexus, the Tyne &?Wear PTE, QuayLink connects the centres of Newcastle and Gateshead with the now thriving Quayside, home to new cultural venues as well as educational, home and office developments.

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