Radio Roundtable: The Greening Of Memphis And A Bike Connection To West Memphis

WKNO | By Justin Willingham

Published July 5, 2013 at 4:44 PM CDT

This Week on the Behind the Headlines Radio Roundtable, a look at the "Main Street to Main Street" project, which uses Federal funding to link up Downtown Memphis with Downtown West Memphis, Arkansas, using the Harahan bridge as a green line connector.

Joining host Eric Barnes, publisher of the Memphis Daily News are Paul Morris, President of the Downtown Memphis Commission; Paul Luker, Director of Planning for the City of West Memphis; Greg Maxted, Executive Director of the Harahan Bridge Project; and Bill Dries, Senior Reporter for the Memphis Daily News.

For a review of the top news stories of the week, you can tune-in to Behind the Headlines Friday evenings at 7 on WKNO-TV 10.

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