Evacuating Houston, a traffic question?

[doug_e 0]

How come they haven't opened both sides of the interstates up to outbound traffic? You could save a shoulder for emergency traffic in the opposite direction. That's part of the design of the inerstate!

Even with that the roads would still be swamped. I hope there won't be some evacuees caught in their cars because of this.

[Guest]

I-45 is now 1-way Northbound with 8 lanes, BUT, it's still not enough and many are running out of gas sitting in their cars in stalled traffic !!!!!!