The QLine will extend ridership hours, beginning Monday.
The trains will run until midnight instead of 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday. They'll operate until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday instead of midnight. And on Sunday, streetcars will run until 11 p.m. instead of 8 p.m.
"We’ve received a lot of feedback from riders encouraging us to extend our hours," M-1 Rail spokesman Dan Lijana tells The Detroit News.
"When we started, we always hoped demand would be here to extend the hours, and that we'd be able to improve operations and increase manpower to the point that additional hours would be feasible. Now we've reached that point."
While cars are often filled before and after events downtown, they've also been nearly empty during parts of the day and late at night.
"We've hired and trained seven new operators," Lijana says. "We have been able to consistently meet our time goals. It didn’t make sense to extend hours if delivery of service isn't consistent, and now we are consistent. We can deliver quality service later into the evening."
