St. Widge said

Nobody has really said why they needed maintenance. Just that they were doing maintenance on them in preparation for the Super Bowl. Being maintenance, I assume it was to make sure they properly functioned during the Super Bowl, not a situation where stuff was stuck in them and they needed to be repaired.

It's been awhile since I looked at them, and I never really took a very close look obviously, but my recollection is that there isn't much of a gap where stuff could fall in and get stuck.

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“Bollards were not up,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell told reporters during a press conference on Wednesday. The replacement project began in November and is “near completion, with the expectation of being completed before the Super Bowl,” she said.

The “broken-down” bollards were “inefficient” and often had Mardi Gras beads stuck in the machinery, according to Cantrell.

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