Who?mikejones! said:
Even my small ass home town parks cruisers in the roadways during downtown festivals to block vehicles.
Bourbon is one of the most famous pedestrian streets in the world.
So to recap:
The most famous pedestrian street in the United States was left unprotected on NYE.
Even after a similar attack at a Christmas market in Germany, the leadership in NOLA failed to take even the most basic of protective measures.
Nothing can be more basic of a security measure than a concrete barrier, but they failed to do even that.