October 12th, 2005
Tags: ray nagin, norta, disaster planning, school buses, red cross, joseph matthews
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From "City blamed for botching N.O. evac plan":
They gave New Orleans city officials an affordable plan to evacuate 30,000 low-income, elderly and homeless people, said New Orleans attorney Val Exnicios.
But city officials failed to put it in play come crunch time, he claims.
Exnicios blames city officials for botching an evacuation plan in place as needy […]
October 8th, 2005
Tags: school buses, ward9, norta
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From the 9/12 article "Floodwaters also may be full of gasoline":
Some 150 buses that were moved to the Poland Avenue Wharf in the Lower Ninth Ward appear to have fared well, but about 70 of those vehicles were commandeered by the police and fire departments, the National Guard, and in a few cases by individual […]
September 6th, 2005
Tags: school buses, norta
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In addition to schoolbuses, there were New Orleans Regional Transit Authority vehicles. According to this, Orleans parish's NORTA had:
Fixed route buses: 364; Fixed route streetcars: 42; Paratransit vans and taxis: 40
What I'd like to find is a chart or a map summarizing what assets were available and where they were at various times. There's a […]