The buses were introduced for the 2005 Tall Ships Race
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Passenger numbers on a troubled Tyneside bus route are improving, according to transport bosses.
The QuayLink service links the riversides of Newcastle and Gateshead with a fleet of 10 yellow hybrid electric single-deck vehicles.
It cost £8m to set up during the 2005 Tall Ships Race, but attracted as few as 11,000 passengers a week.
New figures show more than 50,000 people used the routes in the first four weeks of August.
Each vehicle costs about £200,000 and operator Nexus says the QuayLink service has now carried 500,000 people in one year of operation.
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