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Article: LOST IN EDEN PRAIRIE; Around and around drivers roam, searching for stores and restaurants. You might think somebody ought to make it easier to navigate the booming suburb. Well, somebody is.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 3, 2005
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Byline: David Peterson; Staff Writer
Suzanne Williams was a fair choice to take the Eden Prairie Challenge.
Not only has she been there countless times, she is considered the family pro at making sense of the roadway maze that confuses many of the million-plus visitors each month to the stores in and around Eden Prairie Center. "Whenever we go there," she said, "my sister says, `You're driving!'-"
Yet even she got confused during a recent experiment conducted at the request of the Star Tribune. No more than two minutes out of the gate, in fact, she was making her costliest mistake. Asked to navigate from the main freeway to the huge regional ...