City and police say Vancouver festival planning followed rules before attack

VANCOUVER — Sixteen 320-kilogram barriers arrived in Vancouver this week, specially designed to block vehicles trying to enter public spaces.
The barriers were ordered in February, about two months before the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people, when an SUV plowed through a crowded street.
But police say that even if the half-metre-wide barriers had arrived earlier, they would not have been deployed to prevent the tragedy.
A preliminary report by the City of Vancouver and p