All the best to the other two riders who are in the Federal Witness Protection Program

If the backrooms had a transit network it would be the DPM

Fun fact: the People Mover's stations are video monitored. I was standing on the yellow line one time when there was no train approaching, just looking around, and a voice came over the speakers in the station telling me to stand back. It was alarming, but it's nice to know someone is looking out!

It's surreal to hear the Old TTC Door Chime in Detroit of all things, nostalgic for Toronto/Scarborough people but unreal for people in America

The same cars are notorious in Vancouver for being  R E A L L Y    L O U D

The Detroit Institute of Arts was designed by Paul Philippe Cret, who migrated to teach at UPenn, who was also the architect of the National Memorial Arch at Valley Forge in the 1910s and even the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in the 1920s! The Majestic Theatre and Fox Theatre were both designed by C. Howard Crane who worked on St Louis's Fox Theatre, DC's Warner Theatre, and the former Earls Court Exhibition Centre (demolished in 2014) in London. The Detroit Public Library on the other hand was designed by Cass Gilbert who worked on NYC's Woolworth Building, the US Supreme Court in DC, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas, and West Virginia. The QLine is definitely useful, besides serving the university, Fox Theatre, and Little Caesars Arena (where the NBA's Pistons also play), Grand Circus Park station is walking distance to the Tigers and Lions stadiums as well!

I visited Detroit back in Spring Break 2019 for a FIRST robotics world championship and when I was there, I loved downtown, Detroit-style pizza is honestly my favorite style of pizza (and I say this as a NYer born to NJ parents) and it definitely has a lot of potential! The DPM is a circulator because it was meant to have different rail lines as feeders in the original ambitious plan, but it and the suburbs couldn't decide on anything for the 600 million promised by Gerald Ford, and so only the circulator got built and the money was withdrawn by Reagan. So the QLine built in 2017 is a step closer to that vision. Something worth mentioning is Detroit has tried many times to build a subway or an L, like in 1920 when the proposal was vetoed by the mayor, the vote for it was put off the ballot last minute in 1927, 72 percent rejected it in 1929, 68 percent approved in 1933 but the government refused to fund it...yeah.

DETROIT MENTIONED!!!!

The people move may not be used much, but during conventions, game days, and parking for a night in Bricktown or Greektown, it is an absolute godsend. I can't tell you how many times it has gotten me out of paying $20 plus for parking. The one-way loop is a bit annoying, but hey, at least it smells and looks clean most of the time.

0:54 "All right... It's a streetcar!" is my new favorite Miles in Transit one-liner, surpassing even "Lancaster... Pennsylvania!"

In the DPM's defense, it carries a lot more people during events (baseball, football, hockey, conventions, trade shows), its utility is much more apparent then.

8:33 European here. The "People mover" is famous even here, it is the most strange / quirky transit system I know of . One way but automatic? Elavated, stations too close, you basically go nowhere and somewhere you can walk easily ? .... it is over-invested and under-invested in the same time? ^_^ .. pretty good frequency but nobody uses it? Also .. huge platforms and stations but tiny/short trains. I mean so many wonderful contradictions. I would love to ride it one day. What a strange gem for transit nerds! :) Detroit could make it as an attraction for transit tourists as well. You do not have such thing elsewhere

Granted the People Mover only goes in a single direction only around Downtown, but the frequency is reliable and you normally don't have to wait anymore maximum 5 minutes if that. The Qline on the other hand is pretty unreliable, you can be waiting either a couple of minutes up to like 40 minutes.

11:35 the track was enclosed through Huntington Place (formerly Cobo Hall) maybe 20 years ago.. I remember going to the Detroit Auto Show as a kid in the 90s and seeing the train pass overhead every few minutes, and from the train you could catch a glimpse of the exhibits as it passed through.

The building it goes through if the convention center formerly called Cobo Hall. You used to be able to see down to the convention hall floor while passing through. The extra loop outside it used to service Joe Louis Arena which has since been replaced by Little Ceasers Arena. The people mover was always business before or after an event at the arena circulating people from downtown bars and restaurants to and from the games.

I think even more impressive than it being so loud you can hear it from Windsor... is the fact that it's so loud that you can hear on VIDEO from Windsor.

For context the Detroit people mover was a loop designed to support multiple radial lines running out to the suburbs (much like Chicago).  As the county governments couldn’t agree on where to build them and financing (this also happened during the white flight period of detroits history so some suburbs were extremely against the idea of expanding transit outside of Detroit).   When the region couldn’t decide the end outcome was Detroit taking the federal money to build section in downtown hoping the rest would follow.

TLDR: Reason for the people mover being confined to downtown in a loop is due to Nimbyism from multiple counties in the area.

You can hear the anticipated disappointment in miles voice as he’s about to ride the people mover lol

To actually live here and be born near the downtown area and to see it being displayed on YouTube, this it's surreal!!! I love the beautiful downtown Detroit area!!! ❤❤❤❤

It's funny that now. They just redid the people mover and it's free to ride now

As someone from Scarborough, I miss the propulsion sounds of the Mark I trains. Funny that we sold our remaining RT cars to Detroit for 1 million dollars