State and local emergency response officials are working on an after-action report following the tsunami warning in July. Traffic during the evacuation period was a key concern.
Department of Transportation Director Ed Sniffen told lawmakers that although everyone was able to evacuate by the time the first wave was expected to hit, there could be improvements.
“We are going to make sure that our communications to the public are timely, we’re going to make sure that before we start pulling the trigger on ‘everybody leave the office,’ we’re going to be looking at which intersections do we have to have police or flagmen, or in some cases military, at to ensure that we can start flushing traffic through,” he said.
“If we had that in place before traffic built up, it would be a lot easier for us to push traffic through those areas regardless of what the lights say.”…