Grand Opening of Detroit Qline

Since the mid of May, the Detroit Q-line Streetcar System begins his running.

Just like the New York city MTA, this subway is separate from the DDOT. We need to buy a special Q-line ticket to take this trolley.

Fig.1 Q-line map and bus station

In the Fig.1, we can see that, the riders can hang his bike on the trolley, and at every bus station we have a standing self-service toll machine, we can buy Q-line tickets from this self-service kiosk. People can read the Q-line map at each kiosk. Now the Q-line is from the Detroit City center circle to the Amtrak station, along the Woodward avenue.

In the first days' running, it had some traffic jam. A lot of people came to visit this new Q-line. And the Woodward Avenue is not a very big road. So this trolley might not be good for the very heavy load transportation. In the busy afternoon, two trolley buses were jammed in the cross road. 

Fig.2 A traffic jam on the Woodward

In the Fig.2, two buses were before a cross road. And the staff were working on the Woodward to relieve this traffic jam.

Finally I think this new Q-line gives Detroit a big-city feeling. As a passersby said, "we started to feel like New York".