We keep hearing about the school buses. But doesn't New Orleans have a mass transit system like other big cities? I have lived in Cleveland, Ohio and Houston, Texas both cities have them so it would follow so does New Orleans. How many more buses could have been utilized there?
Considering the statewide plan called for requisitioning transport from local entities like school districts and transit authorities there were probably over 1,000 buses that could have been used to evacuate New Orleans. I can't understand why voluntary evacuations using those buses couldn't have been started 48 hours before the storm hit land.