Transportation to Work by Public Transportation:
13.7% for New Orleans versus the USA average of 4.7%.
well - there's an interesting one. Especially when their evacuation plan calls to "find a ride with a friend". I would imagine that at many places close in to the city they don't need cars (especially lower-income areas).
True, but if you uhad a good mayor, of which Mayor Nagin is not in that category, when President Bush ordered the evacuation of New Orleans BEFORE the storm hit, Nagin should have ordered all public transportation busses to evacuate the city.
Looking at all this data and hearing the BS from Nagin, it seems to me that with such a high percentage of people using public transportation, those busses could have evacuated most of those people.
I think Nagin exploded with that outburst becaus he knows he could have done far more to prevent this catastrophe and he shifted into "cover my ass" mode.