Downtown Memphis Blog

What a fucking joke. MATA’s moment of truth has come and gone, and like every public “Service” in Memphis, it failed.

The Trolley, which could have been GREAT for Memphis, was crippled with dumb routes and dumb schedules. In a city in which bars are open until 3am, and Beale Street bars are open until 5am, you stop the trolley at 11pm on weekdays and 1am on weekends?

Good call.

And you craftily designed the Madison trolley line to serve the literally tens of people who commute between the medical center and downtown, while not making it long enough to reach any of the popular nightspots in midtown.