Bourbon Street should become a pedestrians-only thoroughfare from Canal St. to Dumaine St., according to security consultants hired by the city.
Their reports also call for increasing security along Mardi Gras parade routes, NOLA.com reports.
A preliminary report presented last month to residents and business owners received pushback on those recommendations.
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Teneo, the consulting firm, said it will ultimately be up to the people of New Orleans to decide what is best, but said anything less than a permanent pedestrian mall only increases the risk of an attack similar to the events of New Year's Day, when a self-radicalized terrorist plowed a rented pickup truck through a crowd for about three blocks, before he was killed by police.
Fourteen people died in the attack and dozens more were injured.