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The Detroit People Mover (DPM) is a
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system in
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. The system operates in a one-way loop on a single track encircling downtown Detroit, using
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technology developed by the
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. The People Mover is owned and operated by the Detroit Transportation Corporation, an agency of the Detroit city government. The People Mover is supplemented by the
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streetcar, which connects the system with Midtown, New Center, and the Detroit Amtrak station. The system also connects to DDOT and
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bus routes as part of a comprehensive network of
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.


History


Planning

The Detroit People Mover has its origins in 1966, with the creation of the federal
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(UMTA) to develop new types of transit. In 1975, following the failure to produce any large-scale results and increased pressure to show results, UMTA created the Downtown People Mover Program (DPM) and sponsored a nationwide competition that offered federal funds to cover much of the cost of planning and construction of such a system. UMTA reviewed thirty-five full proposals. From these, they selected proposals from Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, and St. Paul. In addition, UMTA decided they would approve proposals from Baltimore, Detroit, and Miami to develop People Mover systems if they could do so with existing grant commitments. Of the seven cities with UMTA approval for their People Mover proposals, only Detroit and
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persevered to build and operate systems. The Ford Motor Company was involved in one of the designs of the People Mover and had hired AlScott Service Company to design and build a room size working model of the system. This model was used for Ford's proposals in their attempt to build the system. The People Mover was intended to be the downtown distributor for a proposed city and metro-wide light rail transit system for Detroit in the early 1980s; however, funding was scaled back. President Gerald Ford had promised $600 million in federal funds. Plans included a subway line along
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that would turn into a street level train at McNichols and eventually go all the way to
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, with additional rail lines running along Gratiot and a commuter line between Detroit and
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. Inability of local leaders to come to an agreement led to the $600 million commitment being withdrawn by the
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, though plans for the People Mover still moved forward. At the time of planning, the system was projected to have a ridership of 67,700 daily. During construction, the system was initially owned by the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA). It was acquired by the Detroit Transportation Corporation (DTC) on October 4, 1985. The DTC was incorporated in 1985 as a Michigan Public Body Corporate for the purpose of acquiring, owning, constructing, furnishing, equipping, completing, operating, improving, enlarging, and/or disposing of the Central Automated Transit Systems (CATS). The DTC was created by the City of Detroit, Michigan pursuant to Act 7 of Public Acts of 1967 and is a component unit of the City of Detroit and accounts its activity as per proprietary funds.


Opening

The Downtown People Mover (DPM) officially opened to the public on July 31, 1987. In the first year, an average of 11,000 riders used the People Mover each day; the one-day record was 54,648. Originally, the People Mover System was operated and maintained by UTDC on a month-to-month basis. The DTC took over operations and maintenance on November 18, 1988.


Service disruptions from construction

In October 1998, the implosion of the J. L. Hudson Department Store damaged part of the nearby track and forced the system to shut down. The system ran limited service until the track was completely repaired in late 1999. In 2000, the
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closed, cutting off access to the
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station. The station later reopened, though it lacked elevator access until the station was renovated with the building's reopening in 2015. During construction of
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, the Cadillac Center station was temporarily closed as part of the parking structure was built around it. The station remained largely untouched and unmodified, although the entrance was slightly expanded, and a walkway to the garage was added. In 2002, the original
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station was closed and demolished. This was part of a multi-year renovation of the
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, in which concrete berms in front of the complex were removed to make it more inviting to the rest of downtown. The system ran limited service due to the gap in the track during construction, leading to a drop in ridership, before the new station and track opened on September 3, 2004. The original station's
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work was destroyed in the demolition, though its creator,
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, designed a replacement work for the new station. The Grand Circus Park station closed for renovations on August 16, 2014, as part of renovation work in the David Whitney Building. A new station lobby was added with a direct entrance to the building, and an elevator was added to provide step-free access. Trains continued to operate in a one-way loop, bypassing Grand Circus Park, for most of the station's closure, though the line was briefly split into two segments (with transfers at Millender Center) while part of the track was closed. The Grand Circus Park station officially reopened on June 13, 2015. A connecting
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station was added shortly thereafter, opening with the system in May 2017.


Changes in direction

The system originally ran counter-clockwise. It changed directions to run clockwise in August 2008, following a short closure to replace sections of the track. This change in direction was intended to reduce the time needed to connect between more popular destinations. The switch to clockwise also reduced the time required to complete the loop, as the route, run clockwise, has one short, relatively steep uphill climb, and then coasts downhill for most of the route, allowing trains to use gravity to accelerate. In late December 2019, the People Mover tested counter-clockwise operation. The system began running counter-clockwise on weekends in February 2020, and then switched back to counter-clockwise full-time on March 1st.


COVID-19 shutdown and reopening

The People Mover shut down on March 30, 2020, due to reduced ridership amid the
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. After a planned 2021 reopening was postponed, the system resumed limited service on May 20, 2022, running six days a week, stopping at six of the 13 stations ( Michigan Avenue,
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, West Riverfront, Millender Center,
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).
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and
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reopened thirteen days later on June 2, followed by
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and Fort/Cass on September 14, and Bricktown on November 21. The other two stations remain temporarily closed as of November 2022. To attract riders, fares were initially waived from reopening day through August, and later extended through October 2022.@detpeoplemover (August 11, 2022).
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Fares

The regular fare is $0.75 per trip, with discounts available for seniors. Children 5 and under ride free. Fares can be paid using quarters at the turnstiles, or with tokens dispensed by machines in the stations. Monthly and annual passes are available, and can be purchased at the
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ticket office in the lobby of the
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. SMART and DDOT passes are also accepted. The fare was originally $0.50, until it was raised to the current rate in November 2011.


Cost-effectiveness and use

The People Mover costs $12 million annually in city and state subsidies to run, and the system has drawn criticism for its cost-effectiveness. In every year between 1997 and 2006, the cost per passenger mile exceeded $3, and was $4.26 in 2009, compared with Detroit bus routes that operate at $0.82 (for comparison, the New York City Subway operates at $0.30 per passenger mile). The
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also charges that the system does not benefit locals, pointing out that fewer than 30% of the riders are Detroit residents and that Saturday ridership (likely out-of-towners) dwarfs that of weekday usage.
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, in his 2011 book, ''Triumph of the City'', referring to high cost of maintenance, calls the Mover "perhaps the most absurd public transit project in the country". Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the People Mover generated about $1 million to $1.5 million in revenue annually from fairs, passes, conventions, and advertising space. There was a mix of riders in 2019: about 50% to 60% were office workers in the downtown area, while others included weekend social riders, area residents, tourists, and conventiongoers.


Expansion proposals

There have been proposals to extend the People Mover northward to the New Center and neighborhoods not within walking distance of the city's downtown. A proposal was put forward by Marsden Burger, former manager of the People Mover, to double the length of the route by extending the People Mover along
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to West Grand Boulevard and into the New Center area. New stops would have included the
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,
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and the cultural center, the
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, and the
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. The plan was proposed at a tentative cost of $150–200 million, and would have been paid for by a combination of public and private financing. Much of the proposed route to New Center would eventually be followed by the
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streetcar, which opened in 2017.


Rolling stock

The People Mover's fleet consists of twelve automated
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cars, built by the
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in
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. They operate in two-car trains. Their original livery was white with yellow and green stripes, though all trains have been wrapped with advertisements since the mid-2000s.


Operations and maintenance

The People Mover's operations center, garage, and maintenance facilities are located at the
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station. Cars enter the garage via a siding, which branches off from the main line to a second platform at Times Square. This siding allows the system to be used in a two-way bypass manner when part of the circular track is closed. Maintenance equipment is lifted up to track level by crane, but not stored with the DPM cars. The Detroit Transportation Corporation is headquartered on the fourth floor of the
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in the city's
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, across the street from the Financial District station.


Ridership

The system was designed to move up to 15 million riders a year. In 2008 it served approximately 2 million riders. This meant the system averaged about 7,500 people per day, about 2.5 percent of its daily peak capacity of 288,000. In 2006, the Mover filled less than 10 percent of its seats. Among the busiest periods was the five days around the 2006
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, when 215,910 patrons used the service. In addition to major downtown concerts and sporting events, other high ridership times include the week of the annual North American International Auto Show in January and the
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anime convention at the end of October, ever since the convention expanded in 2012 to use
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in addition to the Renaissance Center. The system had 92,384 riders during the 2014 extended con weekend.


Incidents


1990 derailment

In 1990, a train derailed at Cadillac Center after a manhole cover fell onto the track.


2015 derailment

On January 22, 2015 at approximately 10:10 PM, one of the cars jumped a rail, hitting the platform at
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. No injuries were reported, and the system was shut down for 17 hours for an investigation. According to a DTC press release, a bracket beneath the train dislodged and caught underneath the rear car, causing the train to disengage from the track. A door was dislodged upon impact.


2016 accident

On May 15, 2016, 53-year-old Michael Whyte fell onto the track between the cars of a stopped train at Times Square. The train then departed automatically as normal, dragging Whyte along the track to his death. Following this incident, bollards were added to the system's platforms, preventing passengers from falling into the space between the cars. Whyte's family filed a lawsuit, alleging negligence on the part of the DTC. Whyte's death is, to date, the only fatal accident in the People Mover's history.


Stations

The network has 13 stations. As the system runs in a one-way loop with a single track, each station only has one side platform, except for Times Square, which has a siding leading to the system's garage and an
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.


Public art

Originally, the 13 stations were not planned to have any distinctive features. However, in 1984, after construction had recently begun, Irene Walt assembled a volunteer committee to persuade the project agency to include artwork in each station. Called the Downtown Detroit People Mover Art Commission (later known as Art in the Stations), they raised $2 million to finance the project. As a result, there are 18 new original pieces of art spread throughout the stations, plus a piece from 1903 that had previously been in storage, on permanent loan from the
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. The commission's efforts and art installation were documented in a 30-minute film, ''Art in the Stations,'' by Sue Marx and Pamela Conn, who had recently won an Academy Award for the short documentary Young at Heart. ''Art in the Stations'' premiered at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1989. In 2004, a
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by Walt, also titled ''Art in the Stations'', was published, with photographs by
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and information on all the station artwork and the artists who created them. Art was completed with the system opening in 1987 unless otherwise noted: * Grand Circus Park ** ''Catching Up'' (Artist: J. Seward Johnson Jr – bronze statue) * Times Square ** ''In Honor of W. Hawkins Ferry'' (Artist: Tom Phardel /
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– glazed tile) ** ''Untitled (1993)'' (Artist: Anat Shiftan / Pewabic Pottery – tile mural) * Michigan Avenue ** ''Voyage'' (Artist: Allie McGhee – tile mural) ** ''On the Move'' (Artist: Kirk Newman – cast bronze shape on tile) * Fort/Cass ** ''Untitled'' (Artist: Farley Tobin – tile mural) ** ''Progression II (1993)'' (Artist: Sandra jo Osip – bronze sculpture) * Huntington Place ** ''Calvacade of Cars (1988)'' (Artist: Larry Ebel/Linda Cianciolo Scarlett – mural) * West Riverfront ** ''Voyage'' (Artist: Gerome Kamrowski – venetian glass mosaic) * Financial District ** '' 'D' for Detroit'' (Artist:
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– hand painted ceramic mural) * Millender Center ** ''Detroit New Morning'' (Artist: Alvin D. Loving Jr. - painted glazed tiles) * Renaissance Center ** ''Dreamers and Voyagers Come to Detroit (1987–2002)'' (Artist:
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– ceramic tile mural, destroyed with station demolition) ** ''Siberian Ram (1993)'' (Artist: Marshall Fredericks – cast bronze sculpture) ** ''Path Games (2004)'' (Artist: George Woodman – ceramic tile mural) * Bricktown ** ''Beaubien Passage'' (Artist:
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– bas relief on porcelain panels) * Greektown ** ''Neon for the Greektown Station'' (Artist:
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– free form neon light display) * Cadillac Center ** ''In Honour of Mary Chase Stratton'' (Artist: Diana Kulisek Pancioli/Pewabic Pottery – tile mural interspersed with bronze plaque by Carlo Romanelli 1903) * Broadway ** ''The Blue Nile'' (Artist: Charles McGee – painted mural panels) ** ''Untitled'' (Artist:
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– tile)


See also

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* List of rapid transit systems *
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*
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*
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References


External links


Official website

YouTube.com: On-Ride Video of the Detroit People Mover

National Transit Database profile of the Detroit People Mover
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