Clovis using street technology to keep pedestrians safe

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – With the calamity successful New Orleans, Old Town Clovis, 1 of the Central Valley's astir fashionable spots for pedestrians with a wide array of tiny businesses and a revolving bid of section events, arsenic good arsenic Clovis Police, proceed enactment to support pedestrians safe.

A captious portion of the precautions? Safety exertion hidden successful the crushed called bollards, metallic poles that manually assistance retired to guarantee cars cannot get to pedestrians.

"The main relation that we usage them for are going to beryllium our parades, immoderate of the larger events that we person down here," said Cpl. Dan Wilson with the Clovis Police Department

Wilson says the 47 bollards successful Old Town, installed backmost successful 2019 for astir $250,000, are 1 of the astir effectual methods for protecting pedestrians.

"These volition really halt a vehicle. The woody ones are determination arsenic much of a deterrent. These are really present to halt the vehicles and they volition halt a conveyance from coming through," helium said.

While determination were bollards successful New Orleans, they were a sliding benignant removed for repair earlier Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, drove a rented pickup motortruck implicit the sidewalk, astir a constabulary car, and onto Bourbon Street resulting successful the decease of 14 people.

The bollard successful Clovis are manual and easy deployed and enactment streets and respective sidewalks too.

They person proved to beryllium an concern constabulary accidental was indispensable successful protecting pedestrians past and particularly now.

"We privation them to beryllium comfortable. We privation them to cognize that information is the fig 1 precedence and we bash everything we tin to forestall these types of tragedies from happening."

For those cities retired determination that bash not person bollards and are funny successful making the investment, Wilson asks funny leaders and constabulary departments to get successful interaction with them, arsenic it is wide the barriers tin marque a quality betwixt beingness and death.