The Broadway station platform (2025) — 42-BRT · CC BY-SA 4.0

Detroit People Mover stationBroadway

The station at Broadway and John R Street brings riders to the opera, Music Hall, Ford Field and Comerica Park.

Next car: 13:57

Code: BW
Opened: July 31, 1987
Boardings 2024: 53,210 (10th)
Boardings 2019: 75,501

01 / Story

The station’s story

Broadway is one of the five free-standing stations, in the Broadway Avenue historic district. The DTC lists it for the Detroit Opera House, Ford Field, the Gem Theatre, Music Hall, the Boll Family YMCA and several downtown hotels (The Siren, Element, Metropolitan, Shinola); Broadway and Grand Circus Park are roughly equidistant from Comerica Park, and the DTC names both.

Inside are “The Blue Nile” panels by Charles McGee, one of Detroit’s most influential painters, and tiles by Jun Kaneko. In 2024 Charles “Chazz” Miller painted the exterior City Walls mural “Welcome to Date Night in Paradise”.

It reopened in the second post-pandemic wave on June 2, 2022. It saw 75,501 boardings in 2019 and 53,210 in 2024, filling up on Lions, Tigers and concert days. In autumn 2026 the escalator is out, so use the lift.

Theatres: Detroit Opera House, Music Hall, Gem Theatre
Stadiums: Ford Field and Comerica Park
Charles McGee’s “The Blue Nile”
Chazz Miller’s 2024 mural

02 / From the window

What you see from the car

From the platform you look along Broadway toward the Music Hall and the Detroit Athletic Club; on game days this is where you first hear the roar from Comerica Park.

03 / Art in the Stations

Art at this station

Mx. Granger · CC0
Charles McGee · 1987
The Blue Nile
painted mural panels
Rhythmic panels by one of Detroit’s most influential painters.
Jun Kaneko · 1987
Untitled
ceramic tile
A patterned tile work by the Japanese-American ceramicist.

04 / Timeline

Station timeline

July 31, 1987
Opens
With works by Charles McGee and Jun Kaneko.
June 2, 2022
Reopens
Together with Financial District.
2024
“Welcome to Date Night in Paradise”
Chazz Miller’s City Walls mural.
Now
The station is part of the loop today; today’s departures are shown above, per timetable.

05 / Curiosities

Curiosities

The DTC names either Broadway or Grand Circus Park as the stop for Comerica Park; both are a few minutes’ walk.

A closer look

The Broadway station hall with its mural (2016) — Mx. Granger · CC0

Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-09-25

Every figure is compiled from the sources below, including the DTC’s official pages, board minutes and its 2025–2026 planning documents. Where sources differ, we give both. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, freely licensed and credited per author.