Trolleys missing from two Downtown lines for nearly a decade
Nine years ago this month all trolleys stopped running following a fire on the Madison line. Nine years later, the Riverfront loop and Madison Avenue line are still down.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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