MATA trustee Rodrick Holmes wants it all for Memphis riders: Stability, free fares, trolleys and more
Rodrick Holmes leads a tour of the MATA Trolley Barn at 547 N. Main. In his job as the transit authority’s operations trustee, he is paid $75,000 per month. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
For the past two weeks, the head of the Memphis Area Transit Authority, Memphis Mayor Paul Young and others have used word stability to describe the bus system.
Rodrick Holmes, MATA’s operations trustee, said the word multiple times to the Memphis City Council on Feb. 24 and repeated it even more times during an interview with The Daily Memphian Feb. 26.
“I say we are going to stabilize, improve and then grow,” Holmes said. “And that’s where we are. And I feel like we are on the right track — kind of pun intended — to stabilize, improve the service and then grow.”
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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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