5 million people, 72 hours, on roads that on their best day were designed to take 200,000 cars PER DAY (number from TxDOT).
I defy anyone to do better in the next 10 years. If ever.
Sure, a lot of things could have gone better. That's life - plans *never* survive first contact with either the enemy or reality intact. We have to look and see if the goal was accomplished in the end, and that's all that matters.
We got everyone out who wanted to go. Nobody was left behind to die that wanted to leave.
I'm not advocating this at all...just a question. Will the occasional reality of gridlock, and the media driven perception of total, constant gridlock give more life to Gov. Perry's I 35 corridor plan?