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City stopped erecting barriers to create pedestrian mall but still issued hundreds of parking tickets

The message from New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration over the past 11 months has been clear, according to street musicians and cultural advocates: The Royal Street pedestrian mall in the French Quarter is closed.  Despite announcing last April it would be reopening the popular attraction —which is supposed to be closed to vehicular traffic […]