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Dennis Lynch

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• Special Meeting: Memphis City Council: April 21, 2026 42:34

  Thank you, Mr. Dennis Lynch. And then Jessica Miller. Uh, greetings you all. I am Dennis Lynch with the Sierra Club and with Better Transit for Better Memphis. Thank you for this opportunity to make a few comments here on the mayor's budget proposal. Uh, one huge thing is well of course everyone knows the city needs better transit and we know that transit has been unfunded underfunded for the last six or eight years and it's falling behind uh the inflation rate. The increased funding for transit has not been there. It's been $30 million consistently and it's almost $15 million below uh the inflation what it should have been. Now, we need an increase to transit to improve people's ability to get to to work, to school, to to uh mental doctor's appointments, and also obviously the youth of our community can use transit to get around to to various activities and visit friends, etc., etc. Um, we look for uh expansion of the service uh $20 million to $30 million increase over and above the budget level that there's been in the past. And that would improve the downtown trolley, would increase the frequencies of buses on existing bus routes, uh would uh uh add to uh various bus routes that that have higher frequency. um would increase the the pay of uh bus operators and mechanics. All of these things are needed to improve and increase the service provided by the transit system. Memphis is way below all of its competitive cities, all of its core comparative cities, Nashville, Indianapolis, Birmingham, etc., etc. We're half of the budget that those cities have provided. We need an increased budget for transit in Memphis. Thank you very much.

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