Associated Press New Orleans school buses, which many say should have been used to ferry out residents, didn't move from the parking lots
City had evacuation plan but strayed from strategy***....City officials had 550 municipal buses and hundreds of additional school buses at their disposal but made no plans to use them to get people out of New Orleans before the storm, said Chester Wilmot, a civil engineering professor at Louisiana State University and an expert in transportation planning, who helped the city put together its evacuation plan. ...***