• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    Bollards save lives. All pedestrian areas should be protected from cars by some kind of physical barrier. This protects against intentional attacks and drunk driving incidents.

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      The French Quarter has retractable bollards in that area. They had been temporarily removed for upgrades ahead of the Super Bowl. At least that’s the story circulating here.

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        If that’s true I hope they get the shit sued out of them. “Oh sorry we decided to risk you all being murdered for a while”

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          New Orleans government is legendarily inconmpetent and corrupt, especially law enforcement.

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        Yeah, and my understanding was there was some other kind of blockade up and he just went around it.

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      There are bollards around the quarter during events. Reports are that the truck. Intensionally avoided and drove through barriers

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      They have them. There are bollards and retractable mechanical devices to block off the busy part of Bourbon. One was down for some reason.