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Memphis Area Transit Authority
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- Type
- Transit authority — Public transit provider for Memphis and parts of Shelby County; owns the vintage trolley rail system, suspended since August 2024, alongside bus, paratransit and on-demand services. Currently under a trusteeship.
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- Rolling-stock hardware, Track & civil
Owns Memphis's vintage trolley rail, suspended since August 2024 and now in reactivation testing procurement; capital is mostly buses.
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Owns a vintage rail trolley system in downtown Memphis with five Melbourne cars and one Birney car. It halted all trolley service on 18 August 2024 after a brake issue led TDOT to recommend costly updates, and the Main Street Trolley now runs as a bus service. In September 2026 it issued an RFP for system integration testing of the six cars, which the State Safety Oversight agency requires before the Main Street Line reactivates; no restoration budget is published. Its wider capital drive is buses and a new bus operations and maintenance facility.
- Type
- Transit authority — Public transit provider for Memphis and parts of Shelby County; owns the vintage trolley rail system, suspended since August 2024, alongside bus, paratransit and on-demand services. Currently under a trusteeship.
- Where
- Tennessee · Memphis
- Technology areas
- Rolling-stock hardware, Track & civil
Structure
- funded by FTA — Grant TN-2026-005 (30 January 2026): Section 5337 preventive maintenance for the rail system and rail facility improvements; obligated, though the description prints as the federal amount (active)
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- ● USAspending.gov — FTA grant TN-2026-005, Memphis Area Transit Authority · Federal award record: $3,966,322 obligated, 30 January 2026; FY2025 Section 5337 preventive maintenance for MATA's rail system and rail facility improvements; the description prints $1,974,237 as the federal amount (published 2026-01-30 · checked 2026-10-07)
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- Published contacts (1)
- Award history (4)
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9 sources · all primary
- ● MATA — media advisory, 18 August 2024 (temporary trolley suspension) · Media advisory: MATA halts all trolley service until further notice after a brake issue led TDOT to recommend costly updates (published 2024-08-18 · checked 2026-10-07)
- ● MATA — Trolley Routes · Page describes the Main Street Trolley bus service, fare and hours, with the trolley map effective 10 August 2025 (published 2025-08-10 · checked 2026-10-07)
- ● MATA — News · News index listing the 2024 temporary suspension of the trolley and 2026 service notices (published 2026 · checked 2026-10-07)
- ● MATA — Doing Business, current opportunities · Purchasing page listing current solicitations as PDFs; on 7 October 2026 the first listed was an invitation for bid for bus suspension parts (published 2026 · checked 2026-10-07)
- ● MATA - RFP 100926GJ, System Integration Testing (SIT) for Vintage Trolleys, with Addenda I and II (September 2026) · Solicitation posted 9 September 2026 on MATA's Doing Business page: SIT of six vintage trolleys required by the State Safety Oversight agency before reactivation of the Main Street Line; proposals due 9 October 2026; contract term 16 October 2026 to 31 March 2027; no value published (published 2026-09-09 · checked 2026-10-07)
- ● MATA — Rebuilding Transit for Memphis fact sheet · Fact sheet on the trusteeship period: fleet modernisation, federal grant funding secured for buses, workforce and reliability; no rail item (published 2026 · checked 2026-10-07)
- ● USAspending.gov — FTA grant TN-2026-005, Memphis Area Transit Authority · Federal award record: $3,966,322 obligated, 30 January 2026; FY2025 Section 5337 preventive maintenance for MATA's rail system and rail facility improvements; the description prints $1,974,237 as the federal amount (published 2026-01-30 · checked 2026-10-07)
- ● USAspending.gov — FTA grant TN-2025-011, Memphis Area Transit Authority · Federal award record: $54,000,000 federal, $70,642,857 total funding, signed 19 August 2025; new bus operations and maintenance facility (not a rail asset) (published 2025-08-19 · checked 2026-10-07)
- ● TDOT — Tennessee Statewide Rail Plan (PDF, file name 'updated 2019', cover dated 2026) · State rail plan document hosted by TDOT: Class I and short line route miles, Amtrak City of New Orleans, the Music City Star (now WeGo Star) and the Memphis trolley; the text carries 2018-era data and ends at section 11, so only structural facts are used (published 2026 · checked 2026-10-07)
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