Bourbon Street security plan aims to change "culture"

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Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s long-term plan for increasing security in New Orleans will include a crackdown on “the culture of lawlessness” along Bourbon Street, with a goal of making the city's most notorious street resemble the more sedate environs of Royal Street, officials said Monday night as they addressed a crowd seeking more information about the plan..

The proposal for the famously freewheeling French Quarter stretch of strip clubs and loud music venues calls for efforts to eliminate vendors who sell booze to patrons from buildings' windows, clean the street and focus on code and business violations.

The final touch, once city officials have erected bollards blocking off vehicles from several blocks of Bourbon, would involve adding trees, planters, benches and other furniture to the roadway.

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Everything else aside, what damn idiot thinks it is a good idea to put trees, benches, planters and other obstructions in the street? Have these people never been on Bourbon when it is wall to wall people? Just what they need is to obstruct the flow of thousands of drunk idiots stumbling down the road. How long before the first lawsuit from someone tripping over or being crushed against one of those? And RIP the Big arse Beer vendor window. Mitch is such a moron.

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