Facing cash crunch, MATA wants Mayor Young to follow through on promise of more money
Busses arrive and leave from the Hudson Transit Center in Downtown Memphis Oct. 17, 2024. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
The Memphis Area Transit Authority’s interim chief financial officer urged Memphis Mayor Paul Young to find more funding for the bus system before it runs out of cash at the end of February.
The Daily Memphian reported two weeks ago that the bus system had one month of cash remaining. MATA leadership gave the transit authority’s board further details this week, increasing pressure on the city administration to find more cash.
In October, the MATA board, in its first action since Young appointed a wholly new slate of members, voted to postpone planned cuts to the bus system until February. Then-interim CEO Bacarra Mauldin said Young had promised her the city would find the money.
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Samuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise reporter who focuses on government and politics. He began his career at the Tulsa World where he covered business and K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on the intersection of government, public policy, influence and how public dollars are spent.
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