Services and Amenities
Apart from providing the usual services like rubbish collection and controlling local development, the City of Adelaide owns and operates a number of city services and amenities, including:
- A network of 11 car parking stations (Central Market, Grote, Gawler, Grenfell, Pirie/Flinders, Light Square, Rundle, Topham, Sturt, Wyatt and Frome) branded as U-Park.
- Adelaide Central Market, a popular tourist attraction and working market selling cheap fruit and vegetables and other products.
- Adelaide Aquatic Centre, offering several indoor heated swimming pools, diving facilities, and a health club.
- A network of four local library and community centres from which local residents can borrow books, music, videos and computer programs, and gain access to computers and the internet.
- A city loop free bus service known as the Connector, which runs through the CBD and North Adelaide, with stops at every major tourist attraction and council library. A new Connector bus, with more seating capacity has entered service, replacing one of the smaller buses that used to ply the route. This is the world's first solar powered bus and is called Tindo, named after the Kaurna word for sun.
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