Dead Birds: Shared mobility ordinance attempts to curb errant electric scooters
Bird scooters, which were introduced to Memphis in June, are posing safety issues for those in the mobility-challenged community.
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Memphis-based startup improves breakdown detection in MATA buses
Preteckt, a Start Co. accelerator graduate, has forged a two-year contract with the Memphis Area Transit Authority to provide automotive detection repair technology on public buses.
Video: The Heights rides to improve public space (en Español)
"Having a greenline and a bike trail in the middle of National Street is a way to bring two sides of the community together.” The Heights Line is a proposed two-mile median park space on National Street in the Heights area of Memphis. Developers plan to use the existing median, a holdover from when the trolley cut through The Heights, and turn into a park space and a walking/bike path that connects the community to the Broad Avenue Hampline and the Wolf River Greenway.
Asylums, trolleys & forgotten soldiers: Five facts about The Heights you didn’t know
We’re kicking off three months of embedded reporting in The Heights with five incredible historical facts you probably didn’t know. (We sure didn’t!)
My City Rides pay-as-you-go scooter purchase program expands to Memphis students
This year, the transit nonprofit My City Rides has joined forces with the Southern College of Optometry, setting its sights on students. As students return to campus this August, many of them will have cars, some will have bus passes and now some will even have My City Rides scooters.
Tennessee’s practice of suspending licenses from those who owe court fees is found unconstitutional
“We tend to see misdemeanor driving as irresponsible or someone being dishonest and even criminal when honestly, we who are middle-class forget to pay our fines every day and are not faced with the threat of having a suspended license for more than a year."
Edge Motor Museum rolling into 645 Marshall Avenue later this year
A new automobile museum highlighting the Edge District’s rich automotive history is on the way to 645 Marshall Avenue. The building, which was constructed in 1925, once featured a car showroom and assembly shop.
Lamar Avenue repair and expansion on the way
The Lamar Avenue corridor, one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, will finally get a much-needed overhaul thanks to a $71.2 million U.S. Department of Transportation Infrastructure For Rebuilding America grant to be used for roadway repairs and capacity upgrades.
Innovative lighting design marks new downtown boutique hotel renovation
Work is underway on the renovation of a former Econo Lodge that closed in November into a Hotel Indigo downtown at the corner of Court Avenue and B.B. King Blvd.
Main Street trolleys hit the tracks again
It’s been four years in the making, but Memphis’ trolleys have finally returned. Once deemed too dangerous to ride, they’re now said to be the safest in the country.
Memphis-based startup improves breakdown detection in MATA buses
Preteckt, a Start Co. accelerator graduate, has forged a two-year contract with the Memphis Area Transit Authority to provide automotive detection repair technology on public buses.
Video: The Heights rides to improve public space (en Español)
"Having a greenline and a bike trail in the middle of National Street is a way to bring two sides of the community together.” The Heights Line is a proposed two-mile median park space on National Street in the Heights area of Memphis. Developers plan to use the existing median, a holdover from when the trolley cut through The Heights, and turn into a park space and a walking/bike path that connects the community to the Broad Avenue Hampline and the Wolf River Greenway.
Asylums, trolleys & forgotten soldiers: Five facts about The Heights you didn’t know
We’re kicking off three months of embedded reporting in The Heights with five incredible historical facts you probably didn’t know. (We sure didn’t!)
My City Rides pay-as-you-go scooter purchase program expands to Memphis students
This year, the transit nonprofit My City Rides has joined forces with the Southern College of Optometry, setting its sights on students. As students return to campus this August, many of them will have cars, some will have bus passes and now some will even have My City Rides scooters.
Tennessee’s practice of suspending licenses from those who owe court fees is found unconstitutional
“We tend to see misdemeanor driving as irresponsible or someone being dishonest and even criminal when honestly, we who are middle-class forget to pay our fines every day and are not faced with the threat of having a suspended license for more than a year."
Edge Motor Museum rolling into 645 Marshall Avenue later this year
A new automobile museum highlighting the Edge District’s rich automotive history is on the way to 645 Marshall Avenue. The building, which was constructed in 1925, once featured a car showroom and assembly shop.
Lamar Avenue repair and expansion on the way
The Lamar Avenue corridor, one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, will finally get a much-needed overhaul thanks to a $71.2 million U.S. Department of Transportation Infrastructure For Rebuilding America grant to be used for roadway repairs and capacity upgrades.
Innovative lighting design marks new downtown boutique hotel renovation
Work is underway on the renovation of a former Econo Lodge that closed in November into a Hotel Indigo downtown at the corner of Court Avenue and B.B. King Blvd.
Main Street trolleys hit the tracks again
It’s been four years in the making, but Memphis’ trolleys have finally returned. Once deemed too dangerous to ride, they’re now said to be the safest in the country.
