Protective "K-Rail" barriers have been placed in key spots at the Fremont Street Experience where pedestrians are potentially vulnerable to motor-vehicle attacks. What’s this all about? Didn't know there were motor-vehicle attacks downtown, whatever that entails.
At least two recent incidents have prompted public-safety officials around the world to install barriers to protect pedestrians from drivers who either deliberately or inadvertently use their cars as weapons and ram into crowds. The attack in Barcelona left 13 dead and the alleged white supremacist who drove his car into a group in Charlottesville, Virginia, killed one. Many more were injured in these incidents.
Fremont Street has installed temporary K-rail barriers, also called Jersey walls, the concrete blockades usually seen in construction zones. These will be replaced with a dozen permanent barriers, each 27 feet long; artists will decorate the walls to make them less stark. Pedestrian access points to Fremont Street that aren’t protected by the barriers will be cut off from traffic by water-filled containers.
Clark County is being extremely proactive with this issue, installing 700 permanent barriers known as bollards (embedded steel posts) to protect the busy sections of the Strip. County officials had an unfortunate head start on pedestrian safety after a woman drove onto the sidewalk near Planet Hollywood and killed one person and injured dozens in December 2015. Prosecutors claim it was a deliberate attack and are pursuing murder charges.
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