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

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>	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

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[konaice]

Priceless !!

[leadpenny]

"Trust but verify!"

[sydbas]

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

They were waiting for FEMA, or better yet President Bush to give every bus an oil change before they could use them.

[Daralundy]

Item from the corner - http://corner.nationalreview.com/

FEMA & BROWN [Rich Lowry ]
Some tidbits from over the weekend. Mary Landrieu is a Democrat, of course, but I don't think she's making this stuff up. There is this from the Times:


"I have been with Michael Brown since the minute he landed in this center," Ms. Landrieu said Friday in Baton Rouge, referring to the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, "and I have been telling him from the moment he arrived about the urgency of the situation."

But, she said, "I just have to tell you that he had a difficult time understanding the enormity of the task before us."


And this:
By Wednesday, with little visible response from the federal government, Ms. Landrieu said that she talked to FEMA officials. "I started to sense they were thinking I was a little overwrought, that maybe I was exaggerating a little bit," she said. When she pressed Mr. Brown on when he was going to finally get buses to pick up the people who had been trapped at the Superdome, "he just mumbled," she said.


Vitter seems to agree:
Louisiana's other United States senator, David Vitter, called FEMA's response completely dysfunctional, completely overwhelmed.


And this is Brown's own account from yesterday's Washington Post . How could anyone who watched Max Mayfield for a minute last Sunday think this was a “standard” or “typical” hurricane?
On the Friday before Katrina hit, when it was already a Category 2 hurricane rapidly gathering force in the Gulf, a veteran FEMA employee arrived at the newly activated Washington headquarters for the storm. Inside, there was surprisingly little action. "It was like nobody's turning the key to start the engine," the official recalled.

Brown, the agency's director, told reporters Saturday in Louisiana that he did not have a sense of what was coming last weekend.

"I was here on Saturday and Sunday, it was my belief, I'm trying to think of a better word than typical -- that minimizes, any hurricane is bad -- but we had the standard hurricane coming in here, that we could move in immediately on Monday and start doing our kind of response-recovery effort," he said. "Then the levees broke, and the levees went, you've seen it by the television coverage. That hampered our ability, made it even more complex."

Posted at 09:56 AM

Don't know if it means anything? Was it FEMA's job to get buses? Was it Landrieu's job to ask?

[MNJohnnie]

Fox interviewed some idiot actor or entertainer the other day (one of many). Among his silly statements he said that those were school busses for children and shouldn't be used to transport adults

So they should stay trapped in a flooded city without Food or Water in the City of New Orleans shelter being brutalized by Gangs because riding a School Bus is beneath an Adult's dignity? They really are just desperate to make excuses for these incompetents aren't they? Funny how they got on the buses Houston set over to take them out.

[MNJohnnie]

Yes, but you see those are school buses for little kids. They need regular buses for big folk! Something I heard from a spokeperson down yonder.



Then why did they come out on the Houston school buses?

[MarkeyD]

From the New Orleans Evac Plan.

'The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating'...

[MikefromOhio]

must be....

[planekT]

...Don't know if it means anything? Was it FEMA's job to get buses? Was it Landrieu's job to ask?
...

LA had the buses, they didn't use them, except for the one the kid stole and drove out with 70 people or so. It was part of the Emergency plan that they would use what they had, which really would have made a big difference.

To my knowledge, Mayor Nagin never even ordered a mandatory evacuation until Sunday night. And who knows if he ever lifted a finger to help make that happen. Looking at the pictures of their swamped fleet, I doubt it.

Basically, Nagin was about as useful as teets on a boar hog, and I'm being nice here.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

fantastic!!!!!

[mystery-ak]

Bush couldn't drive one of those buses...hesent Rove into LA the night before Katrina hit to slash all the tires....haven't you heard?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

But Nagin wanted GREYHOUND buses!!!!

WAIT UNTIL WE GET A LINK BETWEEN HALLIBURTON AND GREYHOUND!!!!!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

about 66 persons on each full sized bus, although that might be a little high with real life adults. Let's say 50 persons.

If they could get 100 of those buses up and running, they would have moved at least 5000 people each trip.

If each bus had been able to make 3 trips, they could have moved 15000 people. (two on Friday, one on Saturday)

If they could have gotten 200 buses going, 30,000.

Add in the mass transit buses. Maybe 50 persons a bus.

And by not leaving them in the flood zone, they would have been usable in post-storm work.

Sigh.

[MNJohnnie]

"I have been with Michael Brown since the minute he landed in this center," Ms. Landrieu said Friday in Baton Rouge, referring to the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, "and I have been telling him from the moment he arrived about the urgency of the situation." But, she said, "I just have to tell you that he had a difficult time understanding the enormity of the task before

Imagine the situation. Total armature Senator lecturing the professionals how to do their job.

Senator L. Drop everything everywhere and ride to the rescue of my voting block right NOW.

Brown, I cannot do that I have three states to manage.

Senator L. Ridiculous you don't understand the enormity of the problem. See that Levee, why is their only 1 machine working there?

Brown: Because we only have enough stable ground out there to put that one out on the edge of the point.

Senator, you don't underhand the enormity of the situation. MY whole political career is at risk! Brown: I have crews working as fast and hard as I can but they keep shooting at them

Senator L.: SO WHAT! You got to break some eggs to make an omelet. My career is WAY more important then any Peons LIFE.

Brown: Sorry Senator, we are doing all we can until the locals restore order in more areas.

Senator L. "That's it, I am get you fired and make them bring in someone who will do what I want.

[Salvation]

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

[MNJohnnie]

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

Then why does the City of NO own Disaster plan call for USING the buses for evacuation?

[kingu]

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.

[willieroe]

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

Now we know....

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