Officials in New Orleans are investigating whether the ongoing replacement of bollards on Bourbon Street contributed to the deadly truck attack that killed at least 14 people on New Year's Day. The project, which began in November, involved removing and replacing the steel barriers, leaving temporary asphalt patches in their place. It is unclear if the intersection where the truck rammed into the crowd of revelers was under construction at the time, but some of the old bollards had been 'unreliable and non-operational'.
Seven years ago, New Orleans officials began installing adjustable barriers at intersections in the famed French Quarter to temporarily prevent vehicles from entering the tourist area where the narrow streets are typically teeming with pedestrians every night.But the steel columns known as bollards were in the process of being replaced and were not engaged early on New Year's Day when a motorist rammed a pickup truck through a crowd of revelers, killing at least 14 people.
He told The Associated Press that it's important to examine every aspect of safety following the New Year's Day carnage.'You can't prevent something like this when someone wants to kill people,' Nungesser said, 'but I'm hoping we take a hard look at what we do because there will be another one, whether it's in New Orleans or elsewhere.
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