Louisiana Dept Of Education School Buses in 02-03: 5,218 Board Owned/ 8,201 Contractor Owned

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[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

>	Total Number of Buses
>	Board Owned										Contractor Owned
>	School	Regular		Special		Activity		Spare	Total	Regular	Special	Spare		Total	Total
>	Districts	Route		Route		Buses		Buses	Buses	Route	Route	Buses		Buses	All Buses
>	Acadia						14		14	66	8		7	81	95
>	Allen				5		14		19	54				54	73
>	Ascension		96		10		14	20	140	26	3			29	169
>	Assumption		1					12	13	34	6			40	53
>	Avoyelles		82		9		3	8	102	7				7	109
>	Beauregard		65		4		12	6	87	9				9	96
>	Bienville		38		5		8	10	61	6				6	67
>	Bossier		163		27			28	218	1				1	219
>	Caddo		343		80		2	73	498					-	498
>	Calcasieu		222		65				287					-	287
>	Caldwell		31		1			5	37					-	37
>	Cameron		25		2		4	9	40					-	40
>	Catahoula		5				2		7	26	2			28	35
>	Claiborne		36		3		3	8	50					-	50
>	Concordia				1		5		6	39	2			41	47
>	DeSoto		9		4		9	4	26	59	2			61	87
>	East Baton Rouge		567		84			192	843					-	843
>	East Carroll		5		1			3	9	8				8	17
>	East Feliciana		5		3		4	4	16	23				23	39
>	Evangeline						6	1	7	64	8			72	79
>	Franklin		8				5		13	53	3			56	69
>	Grant		59		6		7	12	84	4				4	88
>	Iberia						1		1	112	34		27	173	174
>	Iberville				3		4	8	15	53	3			56	71
>	Jackson		34		4		38	6	82	6			6	12	94
>	Jefferson						17		17	210	98		2	310	327
>	Jefferson Davis		33		5		7	10	55	11	1			12	67
>	Lafayette		55		60		11	11	137	127			14	141	278
>	Lafourche		93		6			11	110	36	8			44	154
>	LaSalle				2		7		9	34				34	43
>	Lincoln		54		3		12	7	76	10				10	86
>	Livingston		30					12	42	122	22			144	186
>	Madison		16		2			5	23					-	23
>	Morehouse		38		9			15	62					-	62
>	Natchitoches		14		1		9		24	47	7			54	78
>	Orleans		103		114			107	324					-	324
>	Ouachita		194		11			29	234					-	234
>	Plaquemines		58		11			18	87					-	87
>	Pointe Coupee						6	3	9	63	5			68	77
>	Rapides		95		10		32		137	135	26		8	169	306
>	Red River		29		1		2	5	37					-	37
>	Richland		49		2			6	57	6				6	63
>	Sabine		12		3		18	1	34	46	7			53	87
>	St. Bernard		48		10			14	72					-	72
>	St. Charles		99		15			18	132	3				3	135
>	St. Helena							1	1	31	1			32	33
>	St. James		10		12		2	4	28					-	28
>	St. John		50		10		2	7	69	1				1	70
>	St. Landry		31		14		12	5	62	99				99	161
>	St. Martin		70		12			15	97	1				1	98
>	St. Mary						14	7	21	64	8			72	93
>	St. Tammany				1		10		11	249	71		46	366	377
>	Tangipahoa						25	5	30	194	20		12	226	256
>	Tensas		2		3		3	1	9	12				12	21
>	Terrebonne		45		6			14	65					-	65
>	Union		63		3			18	84	1				1	85
>	Vermilion		62		13			20	95	6				6	101
>	Vernon		6		1		28		35	126	8		1	135	170
>	Washington								-	72	7		7	86	86
>	Webster		74		11			17	102	1				1	103
>	West Baton Rouge						5		5	38	5			43	48
>	West Carroll		32		3		1	6	42	1				1	43
>	West Feliciana		2		1		7		10	26				26	36
>	Winn		1		2		4	5	12	32	1			33	45
>	City of Bogalusa								-	22	3		8	33	33
>	City of Monroe		62		11			14	87					-	87
>	Totals		3324		685				5,218					2,983	8,201

[MNJohnnie]

Why didn't Blanko or Naggin commandere those buses and get the people out of New Orleans

They do not have to comendeer what they all ready own.

[pollywog]

??????????????

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I was looking at the images from NOAA along the Mississippi near the mouth in the gulf. Time after time, I came across school buses flooded - some thrown into houses, others bashed up against trees. I haven't come across any in any of the areas of Mississippi or Alabama yet, but I'm sure there will be some somewhere.

Link? Id like to take a peek myself.

[Travis McGee]

More than 500 city transit and school buses alone, according to these pictures. And one can only guess how many are inside the giant bus garages.

[FreePaul]

Don't forget the enterprising man who took one of the school busses, loaded it with people and drive to Houston. His was the first bus to arrive and they didn't want to let them in the Astrodome because he didn't come from the Superdome. I think they finally got in.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Looking for stats on how many municipal busses were in NO.

Any Idea?

[Shazbot29]

Why didn't NAGIN get people into those buses and get people out of the city????

Why, Nagin the race pimp only needed 500 buses!! I mean, 500! The fact he had access to 8,000 is pretty racist for anyone to point out!

[WasDougsLamb]

NEW ORLEANS FLASHBACK: OFFICALS WARNED RESIDENTS 'YOU'LL BE ON YOUR OWN'



Thats true but newspapers telling them that cost 50 whole cents and they didn't own TV's until AFTER the hurricane so the peoples in NO didn't know they were suppose to get out, silly americans.

[Travis McGee]

In the top photo, there are 150+ transit buses.
In the middle, 260+ school buses.
In the bottom photo, 100 large buses, which may actually be Ryder trucks. (Not confirmed.)

Total in photos is 500+, not counting unseen buses in the giant garages.

[DakotaRed]

That is a long overdue question and so far, no real answers. Alleged government officials of La. just divert attention when asked and blame Bush and FEMA for what happened. So far today, I've seen Foxnews ask this question many times and only a few have tried to defend not using the buses.

[stylin19a]

In before the ban ?

[VeniVidiVici]

I find it hard to believe that FEMA can go from doing such a bang-up job here in Florida a year ago in response to FOUR hurricanes, to a totally inept agency.

I still have yet to see any measures taken by the city of New Orleans or the state of Louisiana to prepare for Katrina, *other* than declaring a State of Emergency, which gets the ball rolling on federal funds, and the evacuation ordered less than twelve hours before the fury of Katrina was felt.

[ChadGore]

[ChadGore]

WAIT ! LA is a big state. How many of the buses are close enough to LA to have been used during the 48 hour mandatory evacuation that should have taken place ?

[OKSooner]

Are you a left-handed or a right-handed LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget?

[Fresh Wind]

I read someplace the bus drivers in Orleans parish have as part of their contract an agreement that they not drive the buses for evacs.

You may have seen one of my earlier posts on this. A multi-part article titled "Washing Away" appeared in the Times-Picayune in 2002 whiched addressed the hurricane issue in New Orleans.

Deep in the article is a discussion of buses as a means of evacuation.

A paragraph on this page mentions the union issue:

"It’s also unclear whether the city’s entire staff of bus drivers will remain. A union spokesman said that while drivers are aware of the plan, the union contract lacks a provision requiring them to stay."

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Right handed of course. Wouldn't want to be wierd.

(Grin)

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I realize a lot of them would have been too far away, but a substantial portion would have been close enough for AT LEAST one trip. Using these buses could still have allowed hundreds of thousands to have been evacuated.

Even Positioning them to high ground, just in case would have GREATLY simplified post huricane evac.

[shezza]

Looking for stats on how many municipal busses were in NO.

According to this 2004 document from the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, New Orleans had 403 buses in its RTA fleet at that time, 367 in its daily fleet and 36 backup or overflow buses, and "contracts for the operation of an additional 26 vehicles in demand responsive service." So in answer to your question of how many buses were in New Orleans, assuming they were all in town and accessible, my math says:

429

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[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

From:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1478076/posts

move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation

So the math: 50 people per bus --> 2680 bus trips

It is safe to assume there were 500 school and municipal buses within N.O. There are another 900 School buses in Batton Rouge
Per Google Maps: Distance: 81.0 mi (about 1 hour 42 mins)

That puts 1400 buses in service

2 DAMNED TRIPS!!!

So So So So doable!!!!!