Member Meeting THIS Saturday! Orange Mound Town Hall! MATA Needs More Service!

[MBRU members, allies, and supporters packed the room at MATA’s September Board meeting!]

Greetings, transit warriors! Our next member meeting is THIS Saturday, and we want you to join the movement! We know that riders have power when they get together to hold our system accountable. We’ll be talking about the Board meeting, elections, and more on October 13th from 12-2 PM at the Crosstown Concourse (1350 Concourse Ave)! Look for our signs and find us at A Step Ahead Foundation’s office on the 4th floor.

Also, we have another neighborhood town hall coming up soon! We’ll be at the Orange Mound Community Center (2572 Park) on Thursday, October 18th from 5-7 PM. We wanna talk with residents of Orange Mound, Bethel Grove, and surrounding neighborhoods about how to make MATA service work better for you. Hop on the #57 Park bus and join us!

Finally, MBRU leadership has been keeping up the conversation in the media about MATA service cuts. Organizer Justin Davis and Cynthia Bailey went back on the radio Monday for Twana Coleman’s show, Let’s Talk About It! On WLOK, the two talked about Bird scooters and bike lanes, transit racism, and MATA’s upcoming Board meeting on October 25th. Justin also spoke to High Ground news for an article about Memphis 3.0’s plan to get $30 million in funding for transit: “I mean, for us as a city, we need to get out of this kind of trajectory where we cut service, ridership goes down, so more service gets cut and it really creates this dangerous cycle where eventually what we’re left with is a bare-bones system,” he said. “Neighborhood service is really important for many people to get from where they live to where the jobs are.” Read the full article here!

***Take MBRU’s new TRANSIT SURVEY! We want to hear from riders all over Memphis about how you use MATA service in your neighborhoods. We’re working on making versions that are accessible for even more Memphians. Take the online version in English here, and here is la encuesta en Español. We’ll also have paper surveys at all our town halls this year!***

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MBRU holds meetings on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 12-2 PM; our next meeting is October 13th at A Step Ahead Foundation, in the Crosstown Concourse. If you have any questions, or you’re interested in joining our work, contact organizer Justin Davis at justin@midsouthpeace.org. And follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to see more updates!