In the wake of the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans, Memphis' plan for keeping Beale Street goers safe is "robust," Mayor Paul Young said in a statement Thursday afternoon.

Security measures on Memphis’ Beale Street are top of mind for city officials after a truck plowed through a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people.

Bourbon Street reopens ahead of Sugar Bowl kick off as New Orleans recovers from terror attack that claimed the lives of 14 people and the suspect.

New Orleans reportedly lacked bollards that could have stopped the driver from going on the deadly rampage on New Year's morning, with the perpetrator driving around a police car that was intended to block access,

As the investigation continues into the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, more details are coming out about the man who drove a pickup truck into the crowd and the victims who were killed.

But New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick called the carnage much worse than terrorism. “This is not just an act of terrorism. This is evil,” Kirkpatrick said. She said that the driver was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and damage that he did” after he “defeated” the blockade that was deployed to protect those celebrating in the French Quarter.

Read more The safety barriers protecting New Orleans’ Bourbon Street were under construction, and not up, when a driver plowed into a crowd on the street in the early hours of New Year’s Day, killing 15 people.