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| NYC to install 1,500 barriers to stop ramming attacks | |
| 2018-01-03 | |
The city is spending $50 million on protective measures including the installation of 1,500 metal barriers, or bollards, in key locations around the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. In May, a man said by police to be high on drugs drove through crowds for more than three blocks, killing an 18-year-old tourist from Michigan. The vehicle was eventually stopped by one of the squat metal barriers. Temporary concrete blocks were put up along the Seventh Avenue sidewalk while city officials weighed a long-term solution and considered banning vehicle traffic from the area all together. Then, on Halloween, an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -inspired attacker drove down a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center, authorities said. He killed eight people before he wrecked his rented truck and was shot by police. Barriers were also placed there to keep cars out of the bike path. "In 2017, New Yorkers witnessed the horrible capacity of people willing to do us harm, whether it was in our subways, on our bike paths or in Times Square," the Democratic mayor said. "We know we have to do even more to keep people safe and that’s why we conducted a review on how best to secure our streets and public spaces, and we formulated a plan of action." The rollout will begin in March. Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... the temporary blocks already set up will remain in place. City officials didn’t specify what other locations will be fortified, beyond the bike path and Times Square, but said there would be barriers set up in all five boroughs. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 NYC to install 1,500 barriers to stop ramming attacks Welcome to one of the many joys of unrestrained pluralism. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-03 16:35 |
| #4 Very mixed feelings. Agreed, Woodrow, but as things are now, such measures are necessary. One of the reasons we elected Donald Trump was so that he could work toward making such measures unnecessary again, given that Mrs. Clinton would have made the situation even more dangerous. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-03 11:40 |
| #3 Good? Very mixed feelings. Like we celebrate taking out shoes off with a full body scan at our airports. The only barriers that used to be needed were at our borders, ports and around anything being used as jihad HQs. Very sad it has come to this. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-01-03 06:24 |
| #2 de Blasio's statements omit any mention of the ideology of the people committing the ramming attacks |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-01-03 05:10 |
| #1 And then Muslims will go back to explosive vests. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-03 01:38 |