Days after the Yonge Street attack, they've begun popping up around Union Station, the Rogers Centre and other high-traffic public places as a precautionary measure to deter vehicle attacks. The barriers, now seen around Union Station and the Rogers Centre, are meant to act as a deterrent to vehicular attacks. "If someone were to do that again, if there were concrete barriers, wouldn't he just kill people in another way?" They aren't sure Toronto should follow the lead of other cities around the world that have erected barriers in the wake of similar attacks. (Philip Lee-Shanok)11 vehicle attacks since 2016Since 2016, there have been at least 11 such vehicle attacks, including in cities like New York, Nice, Berlin, Stockholm and London, and in most cases some sort of vehicular barrier have gone up in the aftermath.

Source: CBC News April 29, 2018 09:00 UTC