NEW ORLEANS — Many who evacuated during Hurricane Katrina have vivid memories of contraflow, in which thousands of cars crawled for miles side-by-side in a desperate attempt to flee New Orleans.

Warmer Gulf waters fuel faster hurricane intensification Evacuations remain difficult for elderly and medical facilities State task force proposed “evaculanes” to ease congestion Officials resist ...

NEW ORLEANS — Contraflow has not been used to evacuate the New Orleans area since Hurricane Gustav, thanks to the 72-hour notice required to put it into effect and the fact that storms rapidly ...

Evacuees heading north on Interstate 59 on Sunday faced long delays and bumper-to-bumper traffic, as residents of coastal Louisiana and Mississippi converged by the thousands onto the clogged ...

Contraflow, which during evacuations converts all lanes on selected highways in the same direction to move people away from potential harm, is intended to add capacity to get more people out more ...