MATA secures $76.3M in federal funding for long-planned public transit upgrades
Trolly consultants help MATA test the Siemens–Duewag U2 car on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on the Madison line. MATA’s trolley line on Madison Avenue has been down for eight years because two trolley cars burst into flames without warning. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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