>From: ThatRogersWoman <debburz at yahoo.com>
>
>... A glitch that does appear to have surfaced is the slowness with which
>the Texas Department of Public Safety has taken in formatting the
>highways to be one way on both sides, something that the mayor of
>Houston asked for prior to this morning's onslaught of gridlock. At
>a 7ish pm press conference, he revealed that the city had asked TxDoT
>and the governor for such an action 15 hours previous.
Odd, the NY Times says that the reversal of lane direction to expedite the Houston evacuation was halted: "Officials also made matters worse for themselves by announcing at one point that they would use inbound lanes on one highway to ease the outbound crush, only to abort the plan later, saying it was impractical." <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/national/nationalspecial/23storm.html?hp&ex=1127534400&en=0a3ea99a4db2bcc1&ei=5094&partner=homepage>
First, I couldn't trust the NYT on WMDs; now, I can't trust it on traffic reports. What's next?
In any case, best of luck!
Carl