This thread got greatly derailed [[pun intended) from Duggan's statement. He didn't say anything about a People Mover extension, or adding new loops, or anything like that. He talked about a "reconfiguration", specifically connecting all the high-rises and skyscrapers in downtown.

Any kind of people mover extension is never going to happen. It could have at some point in the past but that time is gone.

Detroit, unlike Vancouver, or Chicago, or any number of cities doesn't need expensive elevated rail due to our heavily overbuilt and unused right of ways. Particularly if you're talking about something that will take people short distances, MCS, Belle Isle, etc.

Now if there was ever the desire to create actual regional transit, outside of the city limits, then we'd need to go elevated, but no one is talking about that currently and probably never will. Connecting the growing areas in Detroit is what we should strive for right now, and that's easy enough to do on the ground.