Bourbon Street, New Orleans truck attack
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The report recommends a hard perimeter setup that would only allow emergency vehicles, deliveries and hotel drop-offs at certain times.
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Most of New Orleans’ Bourbon Street should be closed off to vehicles, creating a permanent pedestrian plaza, a report recommends, three months after a truck plowed into a New Year’s Day crowd, killing...
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NOPJF, a nonprofit organization, contracted Teneo and security expert William J. Bratton to identify areas where the city needed to harden security following the New Year's Day terror attack.
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Wednesday (April 9) that any decision about closing Bourbon Street to vehicular traffic will start with the community and city leaders.
Launched by local advocate Eric Gabourel, the petition argues that the neighborhood’s narrow 18th-century streets — never designed for high-speed traffic or modern vehicles — have become increasingly dangerous and incompatible with 21st-century mobility. An earlier petition acquired over 6,000 signatures.
When and how to close off Bourbon Street to vehicles are among the topics being discussed by the team of experts led by former New York Police Chief William Bratton.