3-hour tour includes Superdome and devastated neighborhoods
Thursday, December 15, 2005; Posted: 9:45 p.m. EST (02:45 GMT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- For $35 per person -- $28 for children -- a New Orleans company is offering bus tours of some of the city's most misery-stricken spots, including the Superdome, the Convention Center and neighborhoods ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Residents disagree over whether the tours are crass and morbid exploitation, or a good way to help people grasp the enormity of the disaster and keep public attention focused on New Orleans' plight.
The three-hour tours, called "Hurricane Katrina -- America's Worst Castastrophe," were announced last week by Gray Line New Orleans, with the first one set for January 4.
"It's a catastrophe that happened here and I just think that people need to be a little more considerate," said Nakia James, who lived in the devastated Ninth Ward.
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