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FREE TRIAL to subscribers. <a href="http://marketplace.troymedia.com/join-us/" target="_blank">Join Us</a></strong></em></span></h6><p><img class="alignleft wp-image-68529 size-full" src="http://www.troymedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Allan-Bonner.gif" alt="emergency plan" width="150" height="230" />TORONTO, ON Oct 21, 2015/ Troy Media/ &#8211; Many personal coaches and therapists try to get their clients to stop using the &#8220;woulda, shoulda, coulda&#8221; terminology. We can all get a little down by focusing on what we would have done, should have done and could have done, had life unfolded differently.</p><p>We need a version of this advice in our urban emergency plans. Most plans feature aspirational statements with little reference to actual implementation. Some actually list dozens of pages of goals, plans and projects, which end with the sad notation that funding is not available or they are awaiting funding from unnamed sources. What a waste of ink.</p><p>New Orleans, which should know better after Hurricane Katrina, states that &#8220;disabled vehicles and debris will be removed from highways.&#8221; How? By having tow trucks drive over top of the vehicles using the shoulder of the road? New Orleans has firsthand experience with evacuation via highways. Evacuation plans have been called &#8220;fantasy&#8221; plans in some academic studies of urban emergency documents. For example, contraflow, with all roads leading away from the disaster, have been called life threatening. On-ramps and off-ramps aren&#8217;t built to be reversed and neither is signage. All roads leading out means emergency vehicles can&#8217;t get in. New Orleans experienced this mess years before Katrina. After an expenditure of $7 million, the roadways still didn&#8217;t work well during the subsequent Katrina evacuation. The other fantasies including the hope there will be services <em>–</em> water, toilets and food along the way. In fact, there may not even be gasoline in a power outage. So, I wouldn&#8217;t keep my hopes up for the fantasy tow-trucks coming to the rescue. It will be good ole boys, with rifles in their pickups that take matters into their own hands.</p><p>Instead of wishing or hoping for the best, Winnipeg has taken some concrete action. It has snow plans that change bus routes, and designate certain roads open, depending on the conditions. It&#8217;s not just a good idea, it&#8217;s apparently an idea they&#8217;ve actually implemented.</p><p>Albuquerque has reduced one hazard by installing a lightning detector alarm on their soccer field and notes that roofs and electric systems can be evaluated for vulnerability. Albuquerque also has advice on earthquake proofing homes. This activity is a low-cost, no-brainer too. Bolting bookshelves to the wall, bolting wood frames to the foundation and stiffening up the house can help the structure withstand both earthquakes and windstorms. Strapping that strengthens the home can also be part of a retro-fitting insulation – double the payback.</p><p>Brisbane, Australia notes that &#8220;it is critical to have an animal management plan in place . . . &#8221; They&#8217;re probably right, but why not actually have a plan rather than note how critical it is to have one. The folks in Brisbane should read Kansas City&#8217;s pet plan that covers shelters and even disposal of pets who die in urban emergencies.</p><p>Toronto’s emergency plan waxes on and you can just hear the hand-wringing about how difficult a decision it is to evacuate. It won’t be made lightly and will involve consultation with lots of responders. This tells me that the decision might not actually be made or made in good time.</p><p>Both Kansas City and Sacramento have estimates of the number of people who may be involved in an evacuation. It’s not hard. How many are downtown during the day? How about at night and on weekends? How about during peak tourist season? How many transit vehicles will be available? Will there be the right number of drivers? How many people can be moved, including in ‘standing room only’ vehicles? How about people with mobility challenges?</p><p>If your city’s emergency plan doesn’t have this kind of detail, read Kansas City’s and Sacramento’s and emulate.</p><p><em>Dr. Allan Bonner has consulted on some of the major planning and public policy issues of our time on five continents over 25 years. 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