[kainolophobia]

I rode this last night. It has a flaw that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere.

In the midtown area, the streetcar tracks are in the outermost lanes of the 6-lane street. This causes a problem at intersections because the Qline can easily be blocked by cars that are trying to turn right off of Woodward (the main road).

The problem gets worse when you consider that this rail line was built to incentivize more people to come downtown. More foot traffic will inevitably block more cars at crosswalks, which in turn slows down the streetcar.

I'm assuming they can attempt to fix this by limiting the number of legal right hand turns or fix the lights to stay green until the streetcar passes through, but I'm not sure there will ever be enough pressure to do so.