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...pitch in by being better conservers." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, announcing that federal workers are being encouraged to carpool or use mass transit in light of back-to-back hurricanes disrupting the country's oil refineries and distribution...
...pitch in by being better conservers." GEORGE W. BUSH, announcing that in light of back-to-back hurricanes disrupting the country's oil refineries and distribution, federal workers are being encouraged to carpool or use mass transit...
...also asks, “Why did the city not use its substantial public transit assets to aid in the mandatory evacuation of the city?” In fact, several articles from the New Orleans Times-Picayune made clear that public buses were used to transport people to the Superdome...
...demand a wholesale restructuring of the obviously dysfunctional governments of Louisiana and New Orleans. How, in a city almost entirely surrounded by water and built below sea level, there were not clear and unambiguous evacuation routes is a complete mystery. Why did the city not use its substantial public transit assets to aid in the mandatory evacuation of the city, instead of letting them sit idle only to be flooded and destroyed? According to one blog’s estimation, the city of New Orleans owned at least 569 buses capable of ferrying out 33,350 people in a single...
...there are strong arguments--beyond the sentimental ones--in favor of keeping New Orleans where it is. In a piece posted online in the Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report, Stratfor chairman George Friedman points out that the Mississippi River is the centerpiece of the nation's internal-waterway transit system and that the ports around New Orleans are the "key exit" of North America. They are located as far north as they can be and still be accessed by oceangoing vessels. And those essential ports require a skilled force--a city--to make them work. "New Orleans is not optional...