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The Glenelg tram line is a tram/light rail line in Adelaide. Apart from a short street-running section in Glenelg , the line has its own reservation , with minimal interference from road traffic. The service is free in the city centre and along the route to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Hindmarsh .
Transit in Adelaide: the story of the development of street public transportation in Adelaide from horse trams to the present bus and tram system. Adelaide: State Transport Authority. ISBN 0-7243-5299-6. Steele, Christopher (1981). The Burnside lines. Sydney: Australian Electric Traction Association. ISBN 0-909459-08-8. Steele, Christopher (1986).
Adelaide has free travel on the following routes: [19] [20] Tram routes within the city centre, to the Adelaide Festival Centre and to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre; On the Glenelg tram line between Brighton Road and Jetty Road in Glenelg. The City Connector: A free bi-directional loop route, 99A and 99C also operates city centre
Tickets for the games also act as the ticket to travel free on any Adelaide Oval Footy Express bus, train or tram, in order to alleviate overcrowding on regular services. Most services offer early arrival times and some routes will have services that leave an hour after the final siren. [11] The locations in metropolitan Adelaide include:
As of July 2022, Adelaide's trams had conveyed 12.5% of Adelaide's public transport passengers during the previous 12 months; the suburban rail network carried 20.1% and buses 67.5%. Patronage of tram track per route kilometre was 4.8 times that of rail. [note 6] [47]
Currently, the Adelaide Metro encompasses seven different train lines, the sole Glenelg tram line, which is the only one of Adelaide's tramways to survive the 1950s and the only one to be integrated into the current system, with extensions added in the 2010s, and over 300 bus routes.
[10] [11] Other Free services in Adelaide include the City Loop, operating under callsigns 99C and 99A, formerly known as 99C only. The 99B, the Beeline, was another free service which ran until 2007, when the Glenelg tram line extension was finally inaugurated. 97A and 97C are new services which started when the new Royal Adelaide Hospital ...
1909–1952, electric trams built locally, at first from American kits: more than 300 electric trams ran on more than 100 km (62 mi) of routes similar to those of the horse trams until all street tram services ceased in 1958. From then until 2006 only the 1929-vintage "Glenelg" trams survived, running mostly off-street on the 10.9 km (6.8 mi ...