Tram Stop 6 opens

A sausage sizzle, face painting and balloons helped celebrate the opening of Tram Stop 6 this afternoon.

Over 120 residents and tram spotters came to celebrate the stop’s opening and enjoy the free entertainment.

Clarence Park Community Centre’s Kindergarten used the celebrations to hold a cake stall at the site to raise funds for a new playland.

The $32 million project by McConnell Dowell Constructions has taken about a year to open, with some details of the site yet to be completed.

Locals were looking forward to using the stop again after being forced to use the Glandore and Black Forest stops.

Black Forest resident Gillian Alsbury said she’d “definitely use the tram stop, it’s the closest one.”

“We’ve been using the Glandore stop so we’ve just walked a little further.”

Gillian said she liked the idea of a lift as it made access to the stop easier with a pram.

High school student Patrick Marlin, of Black Forest, said he’d got off at the Glandore stop over the last year to watch the progress.

“My feet won’t be as sore from walking this way all the time,” he said.

David Williams, of Clarence Park, would use it to visit Mr Marlin.

By Anthony Caggiano for RailSA