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

Tapxe said

It's also possible that the process forced this time frame. Bids take time, then they can be challenged, then you need the weather to cooperate, and materials might or might not be available when you want etc.

Could be absolute idiocy. Could also be very valid reasons but the human mind doesn't like to find a reason when it already has an explanation memorized.

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Maybe, but the explanation given (I think by the Mayor or maybe the Police Chief) was that they were being worked on to get them ready for the Super Bowl. It sounded like they had not worked correctly for awhile, or were at least difficult to get up and down, and they were now fixing them in preparation for the Super Bowl. But it's hard to know if they were actually functional or not when they took them down for maintenance.