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Remembering Hurricane Katrina: The history of contraflow

2 hours 56 minutes 53 seconds ago Sunday, August 31 2025 Aug 31, 2025 August 31, 2025 9:38 PM August 31, 2025 in News
Source: WBRZ

BATON ROUGE - Contraflow, the helpful traffic tool used after LSU football games, was created during emergency planning to help save lives while Hurricane Katrina was moving closer to the Louisiana coast. 

Twenty years after the storm made landfall, contraflow designer Brian Wolshon talks about how he solved the problem of trying to move the entire city in a matter of hours. 

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