By Ian Frazier Here is a basic urban object: the crowd-control barricade, as seen at events all over America, especially in New York City.
Here is a basic urban object: the crowd-control barricade, as seen at events all over America, especially in New York City.
What surrounds many a sidewalk cafe are waist-high metal dividers that recall crowd-control barricades as much as anything else.
Metal crowd-control barricades could be replaced, she says, by clusters of celestial blue pipes whose open tops would serve as vases for the bouquets that visitors now lodge in fences.
"Today is about the Fusion Hybrid," Mr. Mulally, in his customary blue blazer and red necktie, said to attendees gathered around the stage and beyond the crowd-control barricades.
In the United States, the White House fence is obstructive enough, but after trespassers scaled it, eyesore crowd-control barricades lined the sidewalk as a double security layer.
There were checkpoints for media and crowd-control barricades.
That accident, attributed to a faulty sensor, prompted the Pentagon to install a new system for controlling the barricades, which were installed in 1992 to prevent terrorists from driving too close to the building.
In Port-au-Prince, meanwhile, pro-Aristide forces were trying on Wednesday to shore up control, erecting burning barricades and blocking main traffic routes with concrete tank traps and shipping containers.
This time, the police significantly modified their use of interlocking metal barricades to control pedestrian traffic.
