ORLANDO, Fla. – For nearly seven decades, there was one basic rule drivers, pedestrians and people working along Magnolia Avenue could count on: traffic came from one direction.
That changed Thursday.
With a ribbon cut, applause from city leaders and the final barricades pulled away, a stretch of Magnolia Avenue through downtown Orlando officially reopened to traffic in both directions — completing the first phase of a project city leaders say represents much more than changing which way cars can travel…