Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities

livefromDC said

The cynic in me wants to point out that it took only 4 posts before we got a post advocating for removing all traffic from Bourbon. We're now on page 5 and there hasn't been a single rebuttal implying that it's not the trucks fault, or that's too drastic or what about law abiding drivers or...

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Well, the thing is that typically every night in the FQ starting around 6 p.m., the streets are routinely blocked off to regular vehicle traffic allowing only residents, deliveries, and emergency. Events like this the times would be earlier and last longer.

On a "good" day, driving through the FQ is fraught with other cars, delivery vehicles, bikes, hansom cabs, pedi cabs, and pedestrian tourists who aren't paying any attention to any of the above.