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  • I've been there really cool

  • I live in Detroit and have been to that airport at least 15 times, but I have never been in there! Thanks for the video!

  • What tunnel is that near? I'm flying into Detroit on the 28th. From Mich but haven't been to dtm since I was a young kid and left Mich when I was 21

  • @7justinbeiberfan

    I was told by an employee that it is a 1/4 mile walk and this was to distract from walking that distance.

    Is this true? I don't know.

  • @candlesburn

    It is very cool.

  • if i had epilepsy and went ghrough there, i might have a stroke

  • Have been there probably 10 times. The airport is really nice compared to the city:D I'll be there I think 4 times in the next 5 months. This tunnel is pretty sickkk!

  • I had layover in DTW coming from Los Angeles. I was astonished at the terminal. The light tunnel was really neat, the tram was kinda cool, and that weird fountain was equally as awesome.

  • This appears very annoying.  Maybe the Pyongyang airport in North Korea could incorporate it into a tribute to the Dear Leader.

  • I hated it after being stuck in Detroit for 3 days, but really..I still like it :x

  • i always have to sprint through that to make my flight haha

  • That tunnel is cool, but the real sense of satisfaction comes from the fact that you are about to get on a turbine aircraft to fly away from detroit at hundreds of miles per hour.

  • I missed a flight trying to get this same video, but lost the file. This is a much better job than my attempt could have ever been.

    Long story short, got a free direct flight upgrade (overbookings had my seat taken to a less desirable location) + 24$ in terminal cash to booze up for the easy ride back to see my new love.

    3 years later = great lover, one baby(!), great job, great home, awesome city (not Detroit, sorry..)

    Moral of the story: This tunnel = magic!!

  • This New Terminal and the redone North Terminal Really made Detroit a great Airport! We needed that push. :D

  • this is a trippy tunnel

  • When this terminal opened in 2002...it destroyed everyones expectations Im sure. Its amazing...and still is. Thanks to this terminal, definately one of the nicest airports in the world. Incredibly spacious and designed nicely.

    They also renovated the old north terminal, which is really nice too.

    As a michigan native...i use to hate flying to the old terminal....what a pain

  • This tunnel is amazing. Just went through it and I was blown away.

  • iv'e been in there its even better in real life

  • Did Brian Eno commission this or what?

    I missed a flight in 2007 because of this crazy business.  It ended well, though.

  • Like something right out of Disney World.

  • Excellent video! Thank you! I just wish they had chairs so we don't have to sit on the floor to enjoy!

  • The music was created by Victor Alexeeff.

  • What would you see if you were totally color blind?

  • Someone needs to setup a pot dispensery in the middle of that zone. It would sell so much fuckin pot zomg.

  • looks like some old James Bond movie, very hip and groovy and such.

  • BEST AIRPORT ON EARTH!

  • haha! colours!!! :D

  • They need to drug test architects.

  • It's so intense!!!

  • Hypnotic.

  • i think i remember they had something like this at chicago o'hare

  • I'm planning to go to Los Angeles next summer on Delta. And this light tunnel is one of the many reasons I want to fly through Detroit. It's so beautiful! I hope I can go through DTW and see this in person. Much better than ATL! :D

  • So that's were all the money whent.

  • Bike RACE from TRON ANYONE???

  • love that tunnel go through that tunnel all the time

  • If I ever get to pass through DTW I hope I can pay this a visit

  • @peakster753 do you have to pay??

  • @eirinaki1985 to go in the tunnel? no.

  • just went through this tunnel a couple of weeks ago. was late for a connecting flight and going as fast as i could on the moving sidewalk. i guess with all the strobing lights, colors and movement, i lost my bearings and FELL flat as i stepped off the moving sidewalk. surely i can't be the first one to fall in that thing!

  • too many colors, id hurle.

  • Nice! Cool as ****

  • trippy sounds like steve miller band is playin or some far out band man

  • Next time I walk through this tunnel, I'm gonna be high as SHIT!!! XD

    Special brownies of course. =P

  • I remember walking through this, clutching a large fabric bag to my chest to hide the fact that I'd been sick all over myself on the flight xD Detroit Metro really is one of my favourite airports...:)

  • When I went through, The music wasn't playing. but it was 6:30 in the morning. But is that a factor?

  • Victor Alexeeff wrote the music :-)

  • I like the colors. Must be LED.

  • NICE, I like this!!!

  • Most cities I visit I just go to the airport, if I could I would live at the airport , the way the economy I just may have to, Detroit looks like a good option , music new restaurants and security, better than the ghetto..

  • is this the only thing detroit got going for them is the airport? cause a lot of people try to avoid detroit at all costs & i can see this is where detroit is spending all the money on & not the city itself. CHI-TOWN!!

  • put your hands up

  • I Love Going Through This Tunnel. I Fly All The Time. Can You Make A Video Of The Northwest World Club, Now Delta Sky Club, Across From Gate A38?

  • love that tunnel. Me and my daughter had the pleasure of walking through it. She was 1 (turning 2 tomorrow :) ) and she was amazed. She fell in LOVE with it. and i have to say, i loved seeing her like that.

  • @mamita927 awww lol

  • @mamita927 thanks for sharing

  • @mamita927 your daughters gonna be a druggie, teach her well xD

  • I've always wanted to go into that tunnel. I've never gotten to even though I've flown a bunch.

  • Bund Sightseeing Tunnel...in DETROIT!

  • I hated walking through that tunnel. I was with my eight year old and in a hurry to get my connecting flight and believe me I didn't need that. Horrible thing.

  • lol its lame i guess it cuss i work in air port i go in that tunnel every day

  • Awesome video! I feel as if I'm there. That tunnel is pure genious! I try to schedule flights so there's time to just sit on the floor and watch the whole 30 min. program.

  • oh great they copied chinas technology already

  • I've been though that tunnel at least a couple hundred times. I use to work there. I miss it sometimes. But remembering all the songs and the light shows that go with them remind me that I had been there toooooooo long.

  • ha this has to be hell for people with epilepsy

  • @liv4deth95 for real....

  • @liv4deth95 It would be - that's why there is a a large, labelled shut-off switch on each end, to the right before you go in, that kills the lights and music for slightly longer than it takes to ride the people mover the length of the tunnel.

  • @liv4deth95 yep. That's why there is a shut-off switch on the right-hand side on each end before you go in, push the switch and it shuts down a little longer than it takes to ride the people-mover through.

  • seizure time? O.O

  • Damn, were under attack everyone to the escape pods. ;-)

  • this place is even better in person!

    its amazing.

    you'll just be going down those stairs and you will start hearing music, and you wonder where its coming from. then you see a tunnel, then you compleatly get blown away because you so did not expect to see this

    good job detriot metro

  • thats amazing!!! i have a similar one for the tunnel in the national art museums.

  • damn, why the hell didn't I think about putting the camera down on the ground? good job! I have a video too

  • David Archuleta was there!

  • Last Tuesday the tunnel felt distopian. Detroit is a very sad town these days and their aren't too many travelers flying in.

  • Damn, I really wish they sold the Tunnels Soundtrack at the airport, and if they do..DAMN I NEED TO GO BACK AND GET IT...

  • Been there.....pretty darned cool.

  • ya its amazing now it was a DUMP before oh boy

  • the motacitay....coolest a/p in america

  • That music at 2:00 is always playing when i enter the tunnel and inevitably makes me think "Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise..."

  • that chasing light in the tunnel dont run a proper sequence. Maby they have use some cheap china LED Lights or the Lighttechnican cant program a clean and good squence.

  • Been there 2 weeks ago. It was impressive :-)

  • i skated through that tunnel, through my board down, and the security guards didnt care.

  • ive been in the detroit airport idk how many times (probably 10-15) and have never been in this tunnel.

    i love the detroit airport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i cant tell you how cool this was very impressed the airport has turned out. the old one was a embarisment believe me

  • Kind of like your grammar is to the school systems. "Embarrassment" is what you were looking for. Ha.

  • I was here this summer, very nice airport.

  • Just there yesterday. Awesome. There is a very large tarmac right above you which mostly consist of Northwest Flights. This tunnel connects Concourse "A" to "B and C".

  • best airport i have ever seen lol

  • i walked through this the other day, it was the nicest thing i saw in all of detroit.

  • aw, poor Detroit,

    i wish Detroit was how it was a long time agoo ]:

  • when i went here, i took my bor, and went back and forth like 5 times ,couldn't get enough...they really outdid themselves, i WISH other states in the SU wold wake up and see how badly they've been curbstomped by this... i hear only certain foreign airports in eurpoe rival this, and even then, not quite like this

  • BROTHER*

    ANYWAY I'VE heard THAT CHALES DE GAULLE AIRPOR IS FUTURISTIC WITH WALKWAYS IN TUNNELS ,AND STUFF, .......BUT, i've heard they dont have this...IF only the NJ and FL airports did this....too bad i dont get to go there often, that tunnel was COOL when i went....really breathtaking...adn to think, ppl today are improving this tech even more....who knows, maybe someday, you WILL walk through a jungle, or the artic, or a ...VELDT.....or .....NYC>..or on the MOON.....it's amazing..

  • nearly every big airport has got walkways in tunnels^^

  • Great...people will have something to look at as the LEAVE the Detroit area looking for work.

  • they played some crazy 'killer guy music' last time I went thru

    ...

    like something you'll here from a childs play movie

  • It reminds me a lot of Minority Report.

  • Cheesiest tunnel on earth. I feel like i'm in a very bad 80's music video whenever I walk through it.

  • According to wikipedia, Detroit Metro is the 21st busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic. Anyway, this is interesdting.

  • Wow, look at that - we're finally living in the future! And about time too

  • shootz thats pretty cool airport! i wanna go there! hahaha

  • detroit metro iz da best airport

  • This tunnel freaks me out everytime I walk through it. Anybody else feel like Rod Serling is going to hop out at any minute? Someday, an epileptic is going to have a seizure here and somebody's gonna get sued.

  • i was just there. i didnt know about it. i almost shit my pants. i didnt know what was going on haha

  • haha i like how the guy at 1:32 has his left arm like rested on his back

  • Yes it is Detroit Metro Airport

  • thats a freakin awesome tunnel!!!

  • Rhetorical questions but:do you know the purpose of the lights, and music, is at the detroit metro airport? Also I will soon be catching a flight at this airport, should I expect this tripped out experience? and finally, If I chose to film that area, would I be caught, and have to hide my camera efficiently? I had heard about this ambience experience before, i just thought it was seasonal, and did not happen to often... great video though.

  • Yes it is at Detroit Metro Airport

  • You'll only have to go through it if you're walking from terminal A to terminal C. It goes under the runway.

  • they should continuously loop Lucy in the sky with diamonds

  • AWESOME VID!!!!!!!

  • Imagine getting a seizure in there.

  • i would say its better than o'hare, but o'hare's is not that bad

  • I guess I would have to close my eyes.

  • seizure

  • i was just there but i didnt get to go through. i'll prolly see it on tuesday

  • Totally saw it today!

  • It is really cool. I was there a few months ago.

  • one of the nicer parts of detroit

  • thats better than the one at o hare

  • is like being on acid.you get all f in there!

  • Unreal!!! 8-O

    It's like being in a dream......

    & I realize that people have flights 2 catch/places 2 go, but I do not know how all the people that pass by in the vid can just walk on w/o stopping 2 watch & listen!!! I would Love 2 just live in this! It's like listening 2 crystals sing & watching a rainbow dance...while u r INSIDE the thing! :-D

    Thank U 4 posting this vid of an Amazing technical & colorful display!!

    -futuredata

  • Lights are made by a company called Color Kinetics. Whose stock went from 1st offering of $8 to over $30 in a very short time. Glad I bought some!

  • Thank you for showing this place so clearly =]

  • Yeah this tunnel connects the big terminal to a smaller one across the run way.itz 30ft underground .itz pretty dope.

  • our flight gate kept changing so we went through it 10 times in one day. the first time (ever) we were like AWESOME!!! the second time we were still thinking it was cool and then on we were running through it like NO!!!

  • epilespiy

  • Oh, I think I've been in that tunnel before! It's awesome!

  • niiiiiiice...

  • tbh it is an awesoem expereince to walk through it, it took my mind of the stress of my flight which i think is the whole idea its a work of art tbh

  • I've walked thru that tunnel..it's awesome

  • this tunnel would be a nightmare if anyone is late to catch their flights!

  • there is also a Monorail

  • It was for me. I only had a 25 minute window between my flights, (it was supposed to be an hour window, but stupid late flights...) I had to run from Gate A76 to Gate C36. Took me a good 20 minutes to RUN from one gate to another. However, I have to say the tunnel was awesome.

  • It's worth standing on the moving walkway. I'm planning on walking through it this summer.

  • see when i try telling my friends about this, they really thought I'd been smoking crack,

    but how else do you describe it? walls that looks like ice but never melt and rainbow colors that change on the walls.

  • I've been through that tunnel several times. The music always seems to be the most interesting too!

  • the lights make me feel like I'm living in the future, that's cool.

  • The Detroit Airport is the nicest in the world. It'll be the newest in the US after the North Terminal is complete. I love DTW.

  • The entire airport is very nice...the monorail/train through the terminal is a great idea.

    But oh my God the McDonald's I ate at in the airport was PACKED.

  • That's really cool! Best Airport ever!

  • Everybody in here just has to agree that this is the best concourse tunnel in the US.....simple

  • O'Hare is a POS airport that is old and overcrowded. There is nothing great about it unless you have a thing for narrow concourses and sitting on the floor at your gate due to lack of chairs. People in here were saying that O'Hare has a "better" tunnel than this; so I youtubed it. All I got to say to you all is: "Quit lying to yourself". Those stupid lights on the ceiling are nothing compared to this.

  • i went thru o hre a logn time ago, enjoyed the advanced stuff....restraunts..playgroun­d...i didnt see the light tunnel, th :(''' but, i saw this one, and WOW......THo, ppl tell me that some futuristic irport, charles de gaulle, is the coolest, with the exception of a tunnel like this... i went thru this tunnel, and wow.... to think, that they could do this, and that the tec his being improved...soon, we won't just walk thru a jungle tube, it WILL b a jungle, Artic , city, ETC

  • I really like the airport in Detroit. The couple times I went there I never had a chance to see the city, though.

  • this is so cool. I like the video ring at houston airport. SOmebody please upload a video of the video at bush airport houston.

  • i'd say british airports are probably the worst for narrowness for wide luggage. England in general seem full of stupid people who think you are invisible and dont move out of the way. This seems very noticable in the uk. ALot of british people don't seem very nice

  • That's because most british people thesedays are not british at all except for their passport.

  • might this be the first and only thing worthy of going to detroit for??

  • Don't hate. The city is doing a lot to change its image. A lot of it might still be a ghetto, but don't denigrate a great city like Detroit.

  • Take some lsd and chek it out :)

  • i like it...it does remind me a lot of the one in Chicago.

  • i loved tahat place i went there when i was 11

  • I've been through this tunnel a few times and it's a really cool experience. If you're ever in this airport and you have time, make sure to check it out.

  • where is this tunnel? I know its in Detroit airport but what terminals does it connect? In flying through here in Apirl in Going Boston-Detroit-Tokyo. Do you think I will have to go through this tunnel? I hope.

  • navymmw, the tunnel connects concourses B/C to A of the McNamara Terminal. ;)

  • I miss the d i pass through it everytime i fly back 2 houston

  • i go to lebanon every year and i live in dearborn so i have been into this airport many of times the tunnal is that a big deal i think it blows

  • really? I disagree I love Detroit's airport and think this light tunnel is much more impressive and modern.

  • Yeah it looks modern, but its design is extremely poor with long separated narrow walk ways making it extremely difficult to traverse.

  • I've been through O'Hare and Detroit and Detroit is just a crappy rip off of O'Hare. The place is a pain in the ass to navigate and you can tell that it was built with a bloated budget or overspending contractor looking to complicate things to get more work.

  • that's cool

  • that tunnel is so friekin colorful and cool. everytime i pass through the states on home leave i walk through there :D

  • I work there and see that damn tunnel every freekin weekend

  • looks like a techno disco or something out of las vegas, or out of a futuristic movie....huh where am I

  • there should be a sign at the entrance saying, warning do not enter if you suffer from seizures, migranes, or if you are a hippie (warning hippies may think they are high if they enter the walkway, you could be high or not, we dont care jus dont blame us when your hgihness doesnt stop)

  • Reminds me of the color-flashing tunnels at O'Hara airport in Chicago.:)