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Article: No crashes (yet), just a little confusion over two-way streets; On Hennepin and 1st Avs. in Minneapolis, it's a new kind of driver's ed.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 15, 2009
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Byline: JIM FOTI; STAFF WRITER
People flock to Hennepin Avenue and the Warehouse District to be entertained, but the best show right now may be on the streets themselves.
Hennepin and 1st Avenues were converted Sunday to two-way streets with new signs, new rules and an unusual parking set-up, but not everyone got the memo, resulting in ticketed cars, stuck drivers, blocked bike lanes and crunched pylons.
Ian Anderson, a sound technician at the Fine Line Music Cafe, left his truck in one of the new, 6-feet-from-the-curb parking spaces on 1st Avenue N. on Tuesday "just to see how it works out." As vehicle after vehicle came up behind it, then cut ...