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Originally Posted by Botnst
New Orlenaians have a magical ability to maintain the same impossible traffic snarl on the interstate with only 1/5th of the population. How do they do that?
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Stupidity. ("It's not the heat, it's the stupidity" -- seen on T-shirts everywhere)
Actually, it's because the entire remaining 20% (and oh, how I wish it were that small a number!) are crammed into 10% of the pre-Katrina area. I drove through Gentilly, the devastated area on the east side of City Park, on Sunday morning. Yes, it was Easter, but on a normal Easter morning there'd have been loads of cars around all the churches. Instead I saw acres of debris and only half the trees that used to line the better boulevards, and heard crickets chirping. No traffic jam there . . . because there were very very few people.
On the West Bank, where I live, and in the unincorporated parts of Jeff Parish, traffic has only gotten worse.