Battery Powered Streetcar/Tram Q-Line in Detroit, Michigan, USA 2021 (Free Fares!)
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- čas přidán 28. 12. 2021
- The QLine (stylized as QLINE), originally known as M-1 Rail by its developers and the Woodward Avenue Streetcar by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), is a streetcar system in Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. Opened on May 12, 2017, it runs along M-1 (Woodward Avenue).
In December 2011, city and state leaders announced a plan to offer bus rapid transit service for the city and metropolitan area instead of light rail as had previously been proposed. Soon afterwards, M-1 Rail, a consortium of private and public businesses and institutions in the region, announced the plan for a 3.3-mile-long (5.3 km) streetcar line along part of the same route as the cancelled light rail plan, connecting the downtown Detroit People Mover to the Amtrak railway station in New Center and the proposed Ann Arbor-Detroit Regional Rail system. Quicken Loans bought the naming rights to the line, and announced the name in March 2016 ~Wikipedia
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The Motor City has finally realized cars and roads are not the answer. I wish the system was longer and had several branches. Plus an electrified system is less polluting!! Thanks Tim for sharing😀😀
I feel it should be extended to the Fairgrounds since Amazon is getting ready to open their warehouse.
The Motor City actually had a plan for a network of rail transit lines half a century ago. The DPM is the only part of that plan that survived; it was intended to be a circulator connecting all the lines. It will still fulfill that function if more streetcar lines are built.
@@loraycurenton659 That would be a great plan!! Thanks for your input. Do you have an opportunity to voice your opinion to the City Transit authority? Occasionally cities have open meetings regarding such natters to gather public opinions.
@@colormedubious4747 Thanks for your input. Hopefully more streetcars/trams and more routes will bring the circulatory plan back to life. Does Detroit hold open meetings regarding such natters where they try to get public opinions?
@@scottyerkes1867 You're welcome. I don't live there and I don't know about their meetings/charettes/whatever. I suggest checking the city government's and transit authority's websites.
This tram is like the Guadalajara trolleybus, it can circulate without being powered by electricity for a certain distance very well
I'm happy to hear (or see) that it's back in operation after a long "corona" suspension. Btw, it's battery-powered only on some parts of the route, for aesthetic reasons, but it takes electricity from a wire on some other sections of the line.
I had no idea this system existed!
How very interesting…definitely adds to the appeal of the city and is making me want to visit even more so!
Thanks for your work 👍
The tram has a beautiful design! Great video!😊👍👍👍
Between induction and battery power I am convinced streetcars could and should make a huge comeback in urban America! Well done video as always!
Excellent! A very beautiful tram!
Interesting system, but for me part of the "charm" and interest of streetcars is the overhead wire. But then a tram without an overhead is better than no tram at all!
That's true but its also a way to sell the tram concept to others (partially) as wiring is not very popular for most ordinary folk.
@@timosha21 I really don't see what de deal is with overhead wires for tramways, they really don't take up much of your view, they don't block any sun, and the poles that support the wires can be used as lampposts at the same time, or they can at least have the same aesthetic as the surrounding lampposts. I don't know where these ordinary folk have seen intrusive tram wires, but the only systems that create lots of wire clutter are old systems which suspend everything on transversal wires between buildings (no poles), which means that you need a massive web of thick wires to support the wiring over an intersection, modern systems are way less intrusive visually. If you consider the reliability, cost, and operational benefits of a regular electric tramway over a battery-powered or a dual-mode one it seems silly to me anyone would go through the trouble of digging up streets to sink rails into them but not put in some overhead wires.
Majority of the line is powered by overhead wiring. The tram is only battery operated in certain sections
@@antoinemoorman5754 'Certain sections' sounds like a relatively small part of the line. This really does beg the question whether the added weight, complexity, and probably shorter lifetime of the vehicles (if the batteries are not easily swapped out) is worth the small saving or so-called aesthetic benefit that not electrifying a few small stretches may give you. If you're electrifying much of the line anyway, you might as well go all the way and save everyone a load of hassle.
What a clever little system, seems the best of all worlds here!
Beatiful images friend of the trams, liked it 😉👏👏👍
Great footage friend, greetings from Brazil.
I'm watching your video. My thumb goes up. Nice battery tram!! I send you many greetings....
Happy new year..............Thomas.......................
Awesome capture new sub here wow first time seeing your city’s train
Free-fare day? Achievement unlocked!
Классное видео!!!👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Cool video & QLine ride.
great video my friend, greetings
Me encanta mucho los metros 🚇 los trenes 🚊 y los tranvias 🚋 ambos estan muy chulos 😁👋👋👋
Thanks for sharing. I gather this tram is environmental friendly as it is powered by battery.
Battery electric, nice idea. No need to stress on wires during the winter.
Exellent video! 🤞
Brilliant video my friend like and Greetings 😉👍
Say what you want about Detroit, it's public transit is light years ahead of most of the continent's major cities
Nice video!!!!!!!!!!
Nice trams!
Great not to have use overhead cantilever infrastructure for central parts of the city, more places should consider that!
They need to expand this system!
Excellent ! I however can't find in your notes how long it takes to recharge, and how many minutes or miles it can go between charges. Thanks, Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ont.
Like 28 beautiful video, greetings 🚋👍🙋♂️
Your video very interesting
Nice tram! I wish more cities had those!
In most of American big cities that’s called streetcar
@@kig7205 It can be either
I could have a chance of free riding before official commercial operating. After that I dropped three quarters for senior, if my memory is right. Is it free now ? Wish I can ride by the summer of 2022, means when there is no travel restriction.
Interesting how small it is. I suppose innthe motor city there's still low demand for public transport.
Granted with Covid not many riders. But will it se success in the historical car capital of the world?
Nice looking 🚊 tram! I never gave a thought that these can be battery powered. How long does a charge last?
We have battery powered Tram in Newcastle, Australia,
In several sequences, it appears that there is no driver.
What a unique concept..no fare..no driver.
👍👍🎥👍👍
Only 2 doors at each side?
Why must it run so durn SLOW ?
The City is Big but its so emty
quite loud eh? bump bump bump
Why does it have overhead lines? I thought it was battery-powered.
It's to charge the battery
Part of it is off-wire. Part is not.
@@colormedubious4747 yeah it's more of a system to show off from the company that made them see we don't have to have wires everywhere to run
@@ThomasJM There's actually a market for that: historic districts, neighborhoods with thick tree canopies, areas where there's already too much overhead clutter, etc. Off-wire running has also been used by some trolleybus systems for quite a while.
@@colormedubious4747 true but the system in Detroit isn't really a good use of it also compared to other systems around the world they are very small vechles. For example in Toronto our streetcars are almost a hundred feet long.
2:00 stockx 😂
1:06 With a cracked wheel
Q-Line is not a bad name. The system looks good and far nicer than bus rapid transit.
A pity that it seems to have the high pitched whine that is common on the traction control equipment on most modern trams and metros.
What was the reason for the free fares?
I guess because it was put back into service just a few weeks back before I came (closed during the Pandemic) they wanted to incentivize people to use it again.
Fix that out of round squeaky wheel, for God's sake
Besides the pretty cars, this is useless to Detroiters. It is at grade level, so it is at the mercy of everyday traffic. The only mode of rapid Transit is a subway, a dedicated, obstruction free track, or an elevated rail. This rail does not even operate in conjunction with the city or suburban buses. It cannot move any faster because of traffic and pedestrians. If a car or bus breaks down on it's tracks, it is stuck. It is less than 3 miles of track, averaging less than 15 m.p.h. speeds. I can only hope that the taxpayers will never be foolish enough to allow it to be foisted on to their rolls. Certain moneyed people and foundations wanted it, let them continue to finance it. In the meantime, when friends come to town, ride it and take pretty pictures!
Un metro
Why not just use a bus that doesn't require a track? It would be a lot cheaper to develop, and you could change the route depending on demand.
As much of a good idea as that sounds, do you really want Detroit to continue being a motor city? The only reason the bus exists today is because of the automobile companies. Automobile companies will never learn that cars are no longer becoming the future
I like how wide it is and lower to ground for seniors. A bus can be difficult for seniors, overweight passengers and people with disability to get on and off. I like how low to the ground it is so no worries about climbing steps.
That was the thought when Detroit took out its original streetcars in the mid 50s.
Detroit has lost approx 3/4 of its population since. The fixed route and permanence of stations (compared to a bus stop sign) seems to have more advantages than disadvantages.
Buses didn't come from automobiles, horse pulled public busses existed for centuries. I don't know if they were called busses though.
@@shanewalters2565 So in the future we will have to totally rely on the government for transportation? That doesn’t sound like freedom to me.
Although I love the camera work in this video a lot, no amount of flattering videos can change the fact that the Q-Line still represents an epic failure by DART and the Detroit city council to listen to the customers and taxpayers who bring them the most money; favoring instead those who can afford to live in downtown Detroit the luxury of a 2nd tourist attraction (The Monorail was the first waste of taxpayer money.) Much like the similarly built system in Kansas City.
And, as everyone saw at 7:30, this is a line that will always be at the mercy of people parking their own vehicles (both legally and illegally) taxicab, Uber and Lyft drivers, DART busses, emergency vehicles, and near it's downtown terminus, partial closure due to special events. It's length is not enough to adequately serve people in any of the economically poor neighborhoods, it has no actual right-of-way of its own so it's slower than busses and busses are the only other form of public transportation since the greater Detroit area has zero commuter rails and never built the comprehensive rapid transit system it drew up in 1907. And, they wonder why Detroit continues to be at an economic disadvantage? Good video, but one which shows the lousy, poor-assed execution of such an expensive line. Timosha21 has created an A+ video, DART and the city council of Detroit get an F grade, however. And the Q-Line gets a grade of D only because it's electrically powered and A.D.A. accessible, otherwise this a failure of a system. 🐰
The public in Detroit is unaware that local tax money replaces both federal and state money for public transit, unless stated on the voting ballot. All funds must be in writing or they do not exist. That is why many Detroit suburbs have lost bus service. The high cost of public transit is too much for local tax money alone. Please make this go viral for next August when a vote of NO means only the increase of the SMART property tax can legally be defeated by federal law. I Harold Leese have nothing against SMART and public transit but am very much against the public being deceived. There is no excuse for this as mass transit has so very much to offer and no doubt is most essential in cities such as Detroit. Please make my site go viral, so our leaders listen to everyone. savethefueltax.org
@@Bedroomeyze Please post everywhere in the entire World and please make it so there are Millions of signatures. Detroit is in serious trouble with super high cost per passenger public bus service. The leaders must fill them up , so the bus systems can have money. And the voters must demand this at the voting booth by checking NO, until the buses are full making money. What is confusing is if money can be made by filling them, why a tax? Because not all essential bus service is profitable and absolutely everyone needs to be connected. Safe and affordable transportation is a basic human right as defined by USA Civil Rights and Disability laws, much the same as having clean water, food and basic shelter. I was on a Zoom call and this message is just a joke to Detroit transit leaders at this time. The August tax increase in Detroit must fail and it will take strong opposition to to this. I want no money and just want everyone to vote NO, so the leaders will get my message and respond with actions that are much needed or they must go and be replaced. savethefueltax.org
It smells like disappointment…but it’s free
Well. Well.
When you realize that an e-vehicle in construction and operation actually produces more Co2 emissions than the older normal models, I feel uncomfortable in thinking of our electrical future..
Whata money waste