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[KevinKorell]

Q-Line website:

 

 

QLINE To Operate Free To Limit Contact Points During Covid-19

The QLINE will operate free beginning March 18 for passengers to help limit the spread of Covid-19. The decision to suspend fare payments was made to limit contact points including the cash machine onboard the streetcar and the credit card machines at the station. The policy is in effect indefinitely.

 

M-1 RAIL implemented a variety of Covid-19 safety measures beginning March 4, 2020.

[KevinKorell]

Detroit, MI Metro Times, 3/25/20:

 

  Detroit's QLine streetcar service reduced due to the coronavirus  

 

 

 

 

Officials say they are reducing the service of the QLine streetcar in response to decreased demand due to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

 

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[KevinKorell]

Detroit, MI Free Press, 2/15/21:

 

 

   QLINE announces plans to restart streetcar services in late summer    

 

 

After nearly a year of keeping the streetcars parked, the QLINE expects to resume full services late this summer, M-1 Rail announced in a donor report Monday.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Detroit, MI News, 8/11/21:

 

 

    QLine to reopen in late September, run for free until 2022 

 

Passengers will once again be able to board the QLine beginning the week of Sept. 27 for the first time since services ground to a halt when the COVID pandemic hit, line operator M-1 Rail announced on Wednesday. 

 

Story is here.    So technically they missed the "Late Summer" goal by about 5 days, since September 27th is in the Fall season.

[KevinKorell]

Detroit Metro Times, 9/27/21:

 

 

   Detroit's QLine fell short of service goal during reopening weekend  

 

 

The operator of Detroit's QLine admits the streetcar fell short of its new goal of service every 15 minutes when it made its public return over the weekend.

 

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[KevinKorell]

WXYZ-TV, ABC-7 in Detroit, MI, 6/15/22:

 

 

    QLINE announces extended streetcar service hours    

 

 

After returning to service with limited hours in September 2021 due to COVID-19 safety measures, the QLINE announced today that its Monday-Saturday service hours will be extended until midnight, beginning June 18.

 

 

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