Abandoned Cars on I-10, An Accident waiting to happen because of the Short Sightedness of Louisiana?

Does anyone ever notice that right before (or after) some big event, like Mardi Gras or Jazz Fest, there are a lot of abandoned or parked cars on I-10 emergency lanes?

In fact, there are so many cars abandoned on the I-10 in the New Orleans Metro area, the highways remind me like the highways in Baghdad, Iraq after the wars with bombed out cars.

If also seems like these abandoned cars are left there for at least a week or more in the emergency lanes of I-10. That's right, a week or more!!!

These abandoned cars are just an accident waiting to happen as anyone drifting (or swerving having to avoid another car) could easily crash into these parked / abandoned cars in the emergency lanes. In other states, these abandoned, or stranded card, regardless of reason, (e.g. no gas, maintenance problem, no money for a tow truck), are removed within a *couple of hours* by the police or the local officials due to a safety hazard of traffic moving at 65+ miles an hour.

They are not left there just to give the owner a chance to tow it some later date. In these states, safety is far more important than giving the driver a chance to remove the car in a less costly manner.

Maybe some legislator can change the laws, whether, city, state or federal, to get these parked cars, (abandoned or otherwise), towed to a safer area than just leaving them in the emergency lanes of I-10 for week or more.