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Car 292 at the Adelaide Street stop (2025)
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QLINE / Stop 5 of 12

QLINE stopAdelaide / Sproat

Southbound: Sproat Street · northbound: Adelaide Street

A two-name stop at Little Caesars Arena: southbound you board at Sproat Street, northbound at Adelaide Street. The QLINE’s longest overhead-wire section starts here.

↑ north: 8:12
↓ south: 7:43
Platforms
two platforms at two cross streets
District
District Detroit, Brush Park
From Congress Street
12 min
From Grand Boulevard
13 min
Sponsor in 2017
Ilitch Holdings

01 / Story

The stop’s story

This stop is two platforms at two different cross streets: southbound cars stop on the west side of Woodward at Sproat Street, northbound cars on the east side at Adelaide Street. The Ilitch family announced on July 20, 2014 that the streetcar would stop at their planned arena; Little Caesars Arena opened on September 5, 2017, four months after the QLINE. The 2018 one-year report still called it “Sibley Station” and said it had changed more than any other stop in that first year.

The lessons of the first year landed here: right turns onto the I-75 service drive were restricted for the streetcar, a new drop-off point was set up for arena events, and the lane from Temple Street to the freeway was given to the streetcar. In September 2021 that stretch was painted red and marked “Transit Only”: Detroit’s first transit-only lane, shared by the QLINE and DDOT and SMART buses.

Woodward’s bridge over I-75 was torn down and rebuilt wider during the streetcar’s construction in 2014 and 2015, with weekend freeway closures. The stop’s sponsor in 2017 was Ilitch Holdings as well.

  1. Little Caesars Arena two minutes away
  2. Two platforms at two cross streets: Sproat and Adelaide
  3. Detroit’s first red transit-only lane
  4. The longest overhead-wire section starts here

02 / From the window

What you see from here

On your left Little Caesars Arena and the new buildings of the District Detroit; west along Temple Street stands the world’s largest Masonic temple. On your right is Brush Park, nicknamed “Little Paris” for the elegant mansions built in the late 1800s.

03 / Timeline

The stop’s timeline

  1. A new freeway bridge

    It is announced that Woodward’s bridges over I-75 and I-94 will be rebuilt wider.

  2. A stop at the arena

    The Ilitch family announces a streetcar stop at the new arena.

  3. The stop opens

    The stop is sponsored by Ilitch Holdings.

  4. Little Caesars Arena opens

    The new home of the Red Wings and the Pistons, right by the stop.

  5. Sibley Station

    The one-year report says this stop changed most: a new drop-off point, turn restrictions and a streetcar lane.

  6. The red lane

    Detroit’s first “Transit Only” lane is painted between Temple Street and I-75.

  7. The streetcar stops here every fifteen minutes, free of charge.

04 / Did you know?

Did you know?

  • Little Caesars Arena cost $862.9 million and was built as the flagship of a $2.1 billion sports and entertainment district, the District Detroit.

  • The Masonic Temple is the world’s largest: it holds three theaters, a swimming pool and a bowling alley.

  • The main photo of Wikipedia’s QLine article shows this stop, with car 292 in 2025.

Little Caesars Arena from Woodward, with the QLINE tracks in front (2025)
Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Ransom Gillis House, a Victorian Gothic mansion in Brush Park (2025)
Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Masonic Temple seen from Cass Park (2019)
Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0
The tracks curving near Little Caesars Arena (2021)
Bluediamond616 · CC BY-SA 4.0
A southbound car at the red transit-only lane near I-75 (2024)
Kyah117 · CC BY 4.0
Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-09-26

Every fact is sourced. Where sources disagree (the number of stops, the weight of the cars or the construction cost, for example) we follow the primary, official source and say so in the text. The timetable comes from the QLINE’s official GTFS data and live positions from the RTA’s feed.

05 / Nearby

Places within walking distance

Quarter Detroit places around the stop, with straight-line distances.

Around the stop, from the official QLINE list and the map

  • Little Caesars Arena 2 min

    The Red Wings’ and Pistons’ arena since 2017, with concerts; Paul McCartney and Madonna have played here.

  • Mike Ilitch School of Business next to the arena

    Wayne State University’s business school.

  • Brush Park 6 min

    A district of Victorian mansions, nicknamed “Little Paris” in the late 1800s.

  • Masonic Temple 8 min

    The world’s largest Masonic temple, on Temple Street, with a theater and concert halls.

06 / Events

Events near the stop

Upcoming events at venues around the stop.

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