Everywhere: Places: Detroit People Mover

moving to the opera by Stephanie Fysh

The Detroit Opera House and Ford Field, seen beyond the looping tracks of the Detroit People Mover.

The Detroit People Mover is a small elevated rail line that circles downtown in just 13 stops.

6 January 2008
From:
Stephanie Fysh

The locals laugh at it, the elevated train that runs in a short loop around downtown Detroit, Michigan, unconnected to any incoming public transportation lines. But on a frigid midwinter weekend when my travel companion and I discovered the Detroit People Mover, it made my heart laugh. We took the People Mover stop to stop -- 50 cents a ride, 13 stops, 13 and a half minutes around if you don't get off, just us, some casino-goers, and a handful of carless locals -- getting off at every stop to look around, until we realized we were going to be late for our dinner date. Next time we're not missing a single stop.