MATA to Roll Out Rubber-Wheeled Main Street Trolleys

MATA to roll out rubber-wheeled Main Street trolleys

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The trolleys may be back on track soon — well, sorta. Memphis Area Transit Authority is aiming to roll out rubber-wheeled trolleys on Main Street soon. MATA said they are ready for service after the trolley service was halted this summer, following MATA's millions of dollars in budget woes and the need for expensive upgrades. MATA owes more than $10 million to 200 vendors MATA Main Street Trolley Photo by WREG MATA Main S…

Council proposal would ‘end’ public transit in Memphis, says interim MATA CEO

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A proposal by members of the Memphis City Council to slash the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s city funding in half in its upcoming budget would mean “pretty much ending public transit in Memphis,” John Lewis, interim CEO of MATA, told MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in an interview on Thursday. “The implicati…