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Opinion: Hold MATA accountable for inadequate bus service

mosleycarter@aol.com (Johnnie Mosley) — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 04:00:04 -0500

Opinion: MATA must be mandated to balance its budget without balancing it on the backs of the bus riders. Otherwise, MATA will continue to be an embarrassment to our city.

Guest Column: Memphis must do more to remember Echol Cole and Robert Walker

mosleycarter@aol.com (Johnnie Mosley) — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:55:35 -0600

“Although there is a small historical marker in honor of Cole and Walker in Memphis, their names are not as well-known as many civil rights icons.”

Opinion: Without Dr. King, the 1968 sanitation strike might have been a footnote

mosleycarter@aol.com (Johnnie Mosley) — Fri, 2 Apr 2021 04:00:08 -0500

“I believe that if Dr. King had not come to Memphis, my father and his co-workers would have been forced to continue to work under the same terrible conditions that led to the senseless deaths of sanitation workers Robert Walker and Echol Cole.”

Bus riders' advocate: Restore Saturday bus schedule

mosleycarter@aol.com (Johnnie Mosley) — Mon, 1 Jun 2020 04:00:10 -0500

MATA should have the common sense to know that when you are not the one filling out an online application for unemployment benefits, it is easy to say to those who are struggling amid COVID-19 to “Be patient.”

Proposed transit fee would hit struggling Memphis households

mosleycarter@aol.com (Johnnie Mosley) — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:05:01 -0500

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris faced a “tough crowd” at a recent meeting of Citizens For Better Service when he defended his plan to charge a $145 transit fee for households with three or more vehicles.

Increase bus ridership with more fixed routes, not on-demand service

mosleycarter@aol.com (Johnnie Mosley) — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 04:00:00 -0500

If MATA is committed to providing first-class transportation for the residents of Westwood and Boxtown, it should consider a plan recently proposed by retired bus driver Lonnie Britton to run buses through both neighborhoods every 30 minutes so riders can get to the Downtown bus terminals in 30 minutes.

A sanitation worker's struggle still inspires his son

mosleycarter@aol.com (Johnnie Mosley) — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:24:22 -0500

In a 1973 interview with Ebony magazine, Memphis sanitation worker John C. White said Dr. Martin Luther King's sacrifice stayed with him: “I've had a better life.”