New Orleans readies for Sugar and Super bowls. Its prep work on street barriers might have cost lives [Video]

New Orleans officials are promising the city is safe as they prepare for today’s Sugar Bowl and the Super Bowl next month. But planning for those events might have allowed a suspected terrorist to rampage through the city’s most popular area.

A series of barricades designed to prevent cars from driving down parts of Bourbon Street had been removed and were not in place when an attacker sped into the French Quarter and killed at least 14 people in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.

Those “bollards” — installed as part of a years-long security plan for the tourist-heavy …