Detroit People Mover changing directions...

[Gistok]

Jason... I was once inside the DPM maintenance center [[at Times Square Station) back when the DPM first started running. And although I don't remember a roundtable, I was amazed at how huge the storage and maintenance space was [[where the DPM cars go when the system closes for the night). It could hold at least 40 DPM cars.

So there is every possibility they may not need a crane, although my memory is from 35 or so years ago...

[Jason]

Jason... I was once inside the DPM maintenance center [[at Times Square Station) back when the DPM first started running. And although I don't remember a roundtable, I was amazed at how huge the storage and maintenance space was [[where the DPM cars go when the system closes for the night). It could hold over 50 DPM cars.

So there is every possibility they may not need a crane, although my memory is from 35 or so years ago...

That's really cool and I'd love to visit there. They don't do public tours but they really should.

From diagrams that I've seen, the inside has a few spurs which go off, with some areas being for vehicle storage and some areas for vehicle maintenance. There's nothing indicating a turntable. I don't know for sure though.

Everything is kind of opaque and weird with them. They can indeed double the capacity of the fleet [[from 12 to 24 vehicles) by building out the rest of the facility. Recently [[within the last few years, I don't remember exactly) on their wishlist for the city they said that they wanted to finish building out the maintenance facility to improve the logistics in there, and that they already had the rails from when it was originally constructed, they just needed money to install them. Did they get the money and do it? Who knows. And who knows why the rails weren't just installed in the first place because I doubt they saved much money by buying but not installing a few hundred feet of rail.