As a Detroit Native, growing up 5 minutes from downtown during the era the People Mover was born I’ve been saying why does it just revolve around downtown instead of other places in the city like any other railway system in any other major city🤔!! And this was 38 years ago go figure. 🖤 my city to the moon and back FRFR!!
@Polack-ml9fh6 ай бұрын
Thank Coleman.
@RandomTasck5 ай бұрын
Counterpoint: thank Reagan
@Knightmessenger5 ай бұрын
City and suburbs could not come to an agreement over how to spend the federal earmark on rail lines going out of downtown. So the money got yanked. The people mover was designed to serve as a connector loop to those unbuilt lines. Which is why so many stops are at major roads like Gratiot, Woodward, Grand River and Michigan.
@wilsonw85134 ай бұрын
The Detroit People Mover has a sister system that uses the same technology in Vancouver Canada. The system started small too but consistently expanded and in 2023 became North America's 4th busiest rapid transit system after New York's MTA, Toronto's TTC and Montreal's STM. I've always said that Detroit's People Mover is the key to explosive growth in Detroits future
@Shane_Shaney3 ай бұрын
Fully agree with you 💯
@ac3audio2 ай бұрын
To built extension minimum 2 - 3 years. Vancouver,BC Built Extension. 4 years to Complete 10miles 16Km length. To Coquitlam, BC. From 2000 - 2018 Vancouver Loop Waterfront downtown Vancouver to NewWestminster loop to Vancouver Community College. Passing Commercial Broadway 2x. UPPER platform to New Westminster Return on Lower Platform to Vancouver Communtiy college. A drunk person is able to Loop around
@davidchambers5466 ай бұрын
I think they're over thinking it. Just do an expansion. Gratiot Ave, Grand River, Michigan Ave!
@lashanda89775 ай бұрын
The moneymakers of the auto industry never wanted a thriving public transit system. That's why Detroit has worked to keep the people in vehicles: it's big money and the backbone of many, many industries.
@secretagentcat5 ай бұрын
at this point it being the backbone is bad for our society. bring back all versions of public transportation. its annoying that they never expanded of the lightrail
@RandomTasck5 ай бұрын
It’s just a shame to know that once upon a time the city of Detroit actually had a world-class system of transit. Streetcars used to be EVERYWHERE. And now it’s just the Q-line. Tragic.
@Knightmessenger5 ай бұрын
Believe it or not, there was a subway proposal the automakers actually supported. Ryan Felton wrote about it in a 2014 Metro Times article "how detroit ended up with the worst transit."
@tylerayers42605 ай бұрын
"The people mover has to at least be expanded West to : Corktown, Wayne State University, West Grand Blvd/Hitsville ("Motown Museum")". "And expanded East to DMC ("Hospital Area"), Eastern Market, the Cultural center, Up Jefferson Ave ("at least to Chene Park") & to the Detroit City Airport once completed ".
@janicesandersmusic24626 ай бұрын
Start making it like New York and Chicago Subways if not underground above ground and even though the freeways in the middle of the freeways above ground
@annfarnell16426 ай бұрын
Wow! Finally starting to complete the initial plans for the PM that Oakland County kiboshed in the 80’s. Connecting Detroit to AnnArbor makes even more sense.
@larryhall79986 ай бұрын
Been talking about a light rail system for years now, never going to happen!! BET ON IT!
@travisbeagle56913 ай бұрын
Sort of at least. The original plan was to use the PM to move people around within the downtown and it would then funnel people to and from a larger metro wide rail network.
@toegunn4905Күн бұрын
You need to have transit options to get people from outside the city, to downtown. Rail feels safer than busses for people. Ann Arbor, Airport, Livonia, CorkTown light rail would baloon public transit usership. You need to be where the people are. Downtown detroit is great. Get people there, allow the suburbs to enjoy and through fairs help pay for the system
@user-dw4wg9kk6l6 ай бұрын
For Detroiters, the People Mover is an unnecessary Joke. You might as well walk since Detroit has a little downtown. It's great for tourists and sports events only.
@drdewott91543 ай бұрын
Yeah. Like it could form the core of a good network but it doesn't have the network. Like the very least that could be done would be to expand to double track and build out 2 radial corridors into the suburbs, with one route looping through downtown in one direction and the other looping through the other way
@shanevideki06 ай бұрын
“Have you ever RIDDEN…” come on now
@eraldway6 ай бұрын
No. Have you ever rode. Otherwise it would be "Have you ever had ridden..."
@tylerkochman10075 ай бұрын
@@eraldwayno.
@ericcriteser4001Ай бұрын
I know. That hurt my ears too.
@monie25146 ай бұрын
Why not expand the People mover to go through out Detroit into the suburbs both Ferndale
@jeffreymcdaniel68136 ай бұрын
For years I have been saying that the People Mover could be Detroit's rapid transit solution!
@davidkaiser10046 ай бұрын
That could be too far for it. Michigan Central Station in Detroit should be restored to bring commuter service, Cleveland, Ohio-bound Amtrak and Toronto-bound Amtrak. In downtown Detroit, the People-mover should add more stations including Brush St between Comerica Park and Ford Field.
@larryhall79986 ай бұрын
@@davidkaiser1004 Really, look up Michigan Central Station !
@Shane_Shaney3 ай бұрын
@@jeffreymcdaniel6813 I agree. Use the People Mover as our rapid transit solution city-wide, and look to Vancouver, BC for that inspiration. Concerning the QLine, I think keeping it small is wise with perhaps a few shorter extensions with a line or two going east/west.
@vette13 ай бұрын
also it should be double tracked one day
@user-POPE6 ай бұрын
When i stayed in EDCOUCH TEXAS... REALTOR PROPERTY SALES PRICES WENT UP 5X POPE#266 I ❤ OLD DETROIT 😢
@nlp60825 ай бұрын
Good job, Mr. Cramer!
@jdmrc936 ай бұрын
Double Track/Expand/New Trains. Not that hard.
@user-or8jb4cl4x6 ай бұрын
I ❤ #DETROIT
@carstarsarstenstesenn2 ай бұрын
Expansion is necessary if they want genuine ridership growth
@terristodd42835 ай бұрын
The plan to keep people from behind the wheel after a night out is always a great idea. Of course, the auto industry may have a say in this development only going so far, but even expanding to Midtown is a start.
@drdewott91543 ай бұрын
Sorry for asking but doesn't Midtown already have the Q-line streetcar? Seems like a weird redundancy then.
@Polack-ml9fh6 ай бұрын
Imagine that, citizens want good public transportation! It’s ALWAYS been one of Detroits biggest problems and It’s one of things holding detroit back from quicker progress. Detroit will never be able to sustainably bring in business without good reliable public transportation. The people mover is a joke, always has been. Another Coleman young blunder.
@phlyerthanyou53872 ай бұрын
Go Detroit!
@robx29725 ай бұрын
Decades ago, the auto industry hobbled Detroit, constantly lobbying against mass transit. And suburbanites supported the anti mass transit sentiments. So the ridiculous people mover was adopted. What has changed?
@deshawndavid5 ай бұрын
Its more like a roller coaster than a people mover
@janicesandersmusic24626 ай бұрын
They they should combine and merge both Subway's the one that's going down Woodward and the people mover they should connect those and start from there and move it across the city around the City they should have been did that they should have merged them both and started going all over the important parts of the City midtown downtown corktown make it go in a bigger circle from midtown to downtown and in-between the city that would be a better idea to merge the two subways
@janicesandersmusic24626 ай бұрын
Merge the two subways like the two the bus companys ddot and smart like Chrysler and stalantis
@trainluvr5 ай бұрын
I love the DPM - see my video. Wasting years on study and BS public charettes though will lead to nothing. A fraction of the millions it would take to extend it a few stops could make Detroit a national model for super micromobility on the surface. Small electric assist vehicles for 1 to 10 people traveling in safe lanes will benefit all daily. Government needs to spark research and development in this area. Doubling down on more expensive concrete is a dead end. There is already way too much overbuilt public infrastructure that we can not afford to maintain indefinitely.
@haroldleese19316 ай бұрын
Imagine ? Federal money in writing at the voting booth for Livonia and Detroit. --- In writing. Before most of you vote YES and and NOT a promise for after you vote YES. ---- NEW City Sales Tax coming. Want no Federal money? No problem, the Sales Tax will pay for the free rides. Pay tax on your Coney Dog for public transit and that is all ? Really? I hope not. Please request Petition, if interested. . I'm not doing this for me. I just wanna see Detroit come back and do not think City Sales tax is the answer, without leaders who care about the poor and want good jobs and state funds from your governor --- YES the fuel tax in writing. Imagine.
@jazziez64676 ай бұрын
the train to nowhere, bums and dangerous druggies all aboard
@Harley.Davidson6 ай бұрын
No. 😢 The people mover is definitely a "Downtown thing." 😊 Busses will get you West of Telegraph and North of 8-Road. Or you can buy a car. Or truck. Or van. Dumb-o-crates don't like mass transit. Makes it too easy for everyone to leave! Good luck and God Bless. ❤
@TakenTook6 ай бұрын
It was Ronald Reagan who withdrew the previously promised $600 million in federal funds that was supposed to complete the people mover expansion in the 1980s. Look it up. And remind me again which political party Reagan belonged to....
@TakenTook6 ай бұрын
In addition, Mayor Couzens vetoed the plan for a subway in 1920. I'll let you guess his political party also....
@TakenTook6 ай бұрын
Last but not least, look up the Detroit Area Regional Transportation Authority. That was vetoed by Governor John Engler. I'll give you ONE guess which party he belonged to....
@TakenTook6 ай бұрын
In contrast, Democrat Dennis Archer tried his best to get DDOT and SMART buses to combine forces so riders would not have to pay for transfer tickets when switching from one system to the other on a given day. You want to guess who opposed it, so that agreement was delayed until 2019? Republican L. Brooks Patterson in Oakland County, and Democrat Mark Hackel in Macomb County. So that was a bipartisan failure.
@TakenTook6 ай бұрын
Folks, stop deleting posts. REAGAN vetoed the $600 million. Look it up!!
@user-POPE6 ай бұрын
ILLEGAL PROPERTY GRAB???
@jive67534 ай бұрын
Commuter Rail?????
@gregdavis72046 ай бұрын
What people are gonna be moved? Nobody left but new graffiti will be certain!! Stupid!
@vee361-e1c4 ай бұрын
I don't think you've been to Detroit in the last 10 years if that's your idea of it.