The bluff came first. Everything else followed.
Yes, for most practical purposes. Memphis has a public bus network and a Downtown trolley, both run by the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA), but the metro area is built for driving: neighborhoods, museums and daily errands are spread across Shelby County at distances that transit was not designed to close quickly. A visitor staying … Read more
Central Station is Memphis’s historic downtown railway depot, built in 1914 on South Main Street. It still does two jobs at once: it is an active Amtrak stop on the Chicago–New Orleans City of New Orleans route, and it is the restored shell of a mixed-use building holding a hotel, apartments and a MATA transit … Read more
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