You've obviously never left Disney World at 10pm after the fireworks.
Trains backup too. We had the exact same problem in SC when Hurricane Floyd
threatened in 1996 (I think). The Charleston area has about 750K people and
when they all tried to leave at the same time I-26 going northwest looked like
a parking lot for about 24 hrs. We were spared the storm but the politicians
about drowned when the brown stuff hit the fan. Since then the State invested
about $2 million to construct train crossing arms on all the Interstate exits
and more importantly purchased a dedicated communication system that allows
State, County and Municipal police to talk with each other. They came up with a
plan to shut all the on-ramps on the east bound lanes and divert all lanes of
I-26 to go north-west. AND they actually practice doing it once or twice a
year. Ain't hindsight great.
Charlie
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Subject: [OM] Re: Still in Sugar Land
On 9/23/05 9:36 AM, "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why in the hell weren't the interstate highways in Houston made one-way out of
> town by dawn yesterday?
I've been thinking about this highway thing, after seeing all the images of
car-choked freeways, clogged partly by cars that have run out of gas.
Weren't these Federal highways supposed to be emergency paths for movement
of troops and so on? They're not working very well. I wonder if we'd, for
example, made those highways a couple lanes narrower and invested in mass
transit--light or heavy rail--along with those highways, how much easier it
would have been to get people out of the danger areas. Of course, they
couldn't have brought as much stuff with them....
Rob in Seattle, a city currently building light rail, finally....
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