SA:Newest city tram service to remain free

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2010
SA:Newest city tram service to remain free

Adelaide's new 100 million dollar tramline extension project has been officially opened
with a promise that travel between the Entertainment Centre and the city will always be
free.

Premier MIKE RANN says the project to extend the tramline from the western end of the
city's North Terrace to the Entertainment Centre has been a terrific success .. and the
six-month free travel period is to stay in place .. permanently.

He says patronage on the entire tram line is up 55 per cent on last year .. and an
estimated two thousand people a day take the tram to and from the Entertainment Centre.

Mr RANN says the next step for Adelaide's light rail development is a 520 million dollar
extension of the tramline from the Entertainment Centre to suburban Semaphore .. Port
Adelaide and West Lakes.

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