Looks like Canada is joining the post Nice Terrah Hysteriah The West End of Vancouver a

[Monk06]

neighborhood of 45,000 and the site of the Festival of Light fireworks show was completely shut down
to traffic last night. We're used to traffic disruption from this annoying festival invading our neighborhood every summer but this year it was different

Davie street was closed to all traffic and Robson St had vehicle traffic redirected out of the West End going east and only one bus going into the west end going west towards the beach at English Bay

Then I find out from a friend, the reason is the police have two dump trucks blocking Davie St at Nicola with a squad of swat peeps behind each of them armed with assault rifles Here's the link to the pick of the trucks



Here is the link to the Google map of the location and the West End if you zoom out The West End is bounded by Burrard, Davie, Denman and Robson streets

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Davie+St+%26+Nicola+St,+Vancouver,+BC/@49.2844558,-123.1418257,16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x548672294cfef27b:0x7a3780f1aa1d23be!8m2!3d49.2844523!4d-123.1374483

I don't know how I feel about this An abundance of caution or authoritarian grandstanding

[CentralMass]

1. I attended the fireworks on the 4th in Boston with my daughters. The police presence was impressive.

There appeared to be strategically placed road block and many vehicles involved. The officers were going out of their way to be polite and even conversational at times as we made our way on Trains and by foot. They were offering tips on where to go to view them, etc. It was comforting.
I have to give the City all the agencies like state and local police involved the thumbs up.

[applegrove]

2. Both democrat and republican conventions used huge trucks to block the streets around

both conventions. Better safe than sorry. I think they used garbage trucks in Cleveland.

[daleo]

3. Not terribly surprising after Nice

But everything can't be protected all the time. Any large gathering is vulnerable, sorry to say.