Most of Bourbon Street should be closed to cars following New Orleans truck attack, report recommends

Most of New Orleans’ Bourbon Street should beryllium closed disconnected to vehicles, creating a imperishable pedestrian plaza, a study recommends, 3 months aft a motortruck plowed into a New Year’s Day crowd, sidesplitting 14 people.

The study released by the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation said an “elevated menace situation demands a caller information attack for the French Quarter for mundane concern operations.”

The calamity took spot successful the city’s bustling French Quarter, which had nary beardown barriers to support the country from speeding vehicles similar that 6,000-pound truck, CNN antecedently reported. It came years aft a backstage information consulting steadfast warned successful a 2019 study that the hazard of coercion successful the French Quarter – specifically wide shootings and vehicular attacks – remained “highly imaginable portion moderately probable.”

That study powerfully recommended information structures known arsenic bollards –– vertical posts that tin beryllium anchored successful spot oregon determination up and down –– beryllium fixed and improved “immediately.”

In summation to the missing sturdy bollards, which were nether repair, the city’s portable alloy barriers were successful the down presumption during New Year’s celebrations, CNN antecedently reported.

This communicative is processing and volition beryllium updated.

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