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Hey Rollieman you asked my question... "After seeing what Katrina did (the levys breaking is what did it), I guess people got spooked in the possible path of Rita. From day one though I couln't understand why they didn't reverse the direction of the opposite lanes. I suspect the jam would have been just as bad though.. Just twice as wide" At least it would have been half as long. Back before WW1 (about 1906) they ran a practice mobilisation... the military "borrowed" the railways and turned the whole system into a huge one way circuit feeding all the troops and reservists onto Salisbury Plain ... it's scarey to think that railways/railroads changed the whole face of warfare... Don't know whether the Franco-Prussian War or your Civil War came first... they were the first industrial wars that allowed troops and munitions to be moved in the modern way... before that they walked. Maybe someone should write to George W and suggest they one way the freeways when they need to get everyone out? The idea is way too obvious for government to think of it.
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