Urban design measures may limit vehicular attacks, but prevention is difficult: expert
Preventing attacks where vehicles are used as weapons is difficult, but certain urban design measures might help avert them, an expert says.on Monday after being run down by a pickup truck. Police alleged the driver drove into pedestrians chosen at random, including children.
Alex Wilner, who teaches international affairs at Carleton University and has expertise on security issues, said certain streetscaping measures can help prevent vehicular access to sidewalks and other areas where pedestrians congregate.Those include elevating roadside curbs, setting up bulwarks, making more use of pedestrian bridges and creating divisions between bicycle lanes, jogging lanes and roads, he said.
“I think the focus of our efforts to combat this has been in major urban areas, which makes sense to impede access to major events like parades in downtown areas or major walkways,” Wilner said in an interview. “But for the large part those defenses were not implemented as widespread in rural areas or in suburban areas.”Vehicles used in attacks, though they can be as deadly as explosives and guns, are easy to rent and buy, Wilner said, making such cases hard to prevent.
“It is far easier to get your hands on a vehicle than it is on an explosive device, and it can be just as effective in creating damage,” Wilner said.“That is the problem we have in trying to tackle its use, and I don’t think there is an easy solution.”Francois Bonnardel, Quebec’s public security minister, said Tuesday that the government would try to learn lessons from what happened in Amqui to help prevent future tragedies, but it’s hard to fully eliminate all possibility of an isolated attack.
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