Taxi-bus service is extended after proving hugely popular

08 November 2006

An innovative ‘hail-and-ride’ taxi-bus service is being extended until July next year after proving hugely popular with passengers.
In the nine months the service has been in operation it has carried an average of four passengers per journey, exceeding expectations of Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council.
The taxi-bus, run by Nexus, operates in the Wrekenton and Eighton Banks areas of Gateshead, Monday to Friday, linking streets not served by any commercial bus routes. The six-seater hackney carriage is available for ten minutes of every hour from 9.30am until 2.30pm - all the public has to do is hail it down.
~Bernard Garner~ director general of Nexus, said: ‘Nexus is all about boosting social inclusion and this service is doing just that because it’s providing a link to an isolated part of Gateshead where other buses don’t run.’

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