MATA ‘Transit Vision’ funding clears first county hurdle
A Klondike resident boards a MATA bus to the Downtown Farmers Market in 2021. (Lucy Garrett/Special to The Daily Memphian)
There were seven votes on the county commission for the first of three readings on creating the first dedicated source of recurring local funding for the city-owned bus system. But there are amendments ahead.
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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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