‘This is disgusting’: MATA update to City Council comes with skepticism
“I’ve yet to have MATA in any form of leadership come in here and be honest about the state of affairs,” Memphis City Council member Jerri Green, center in a file photo, said. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
MATA’s interim leader told the council all the buses are ready but only for a pared-down system and that former leadership spent more than a million dollars in federal funds it hadn’t secured.
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