Following on previous posts here and here regarding Houston’s hurricane evacuation plan, Texas Monthly editor and former Houstonian Paul Burka weighs in on the plan in this OpinionJournal op-ed. Mr. Burka does not offer anything new here in terms of a solution, but he does do a good job of framing the key issue:

There is no way that government can assure that the people on the roads are the ones who are in the most danger, those from Galveston and the low-lying areas near Galveston Bay. Common sense needs to be restored to the evacuation process, so that people with the greatest risk of danger will make the decision to leave, and those with the least risk will stay off the roads.

Tory Gattis over at Houston Strategies also has some good thoughts on how to improve the plan.