Tulane University makes McAlister Place a pedestrian mall

For nearly eight months, most of McAlister Drive, the only street on which cars can cross the Tulane University campus from Freret Street to Willow Street, has been off limits, blocked by barriers and temporary fences surrounding workers and heavy equipment.

Sometime this month, the barricades are scheduled to come down, and the machinery will be gone. But cars will not return to the thoroughfare. which will become pedestrian-only McAlister Place, extending from a plaza at Freret to Drill Road, which runs along the quad in front of McAlister Auditorium. The 80 parking spaces that had lined the road will be replaced by planters flanking the 24-foot-wide asphalt path, which will be shaded by the already-in-place canopy of live oaks.

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