ORLANDO, Fla. — Two weekends after a mass shooting on Halloween night, new rules are in place in downtown Orlando.

What You Need To Know

  • For the first time in 25 years, cars will be allowed to drive on Orange Avenue after 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays

  • Bicycle barricades have been installed on Orange Avenue starting at Washington Street and going down to Pine Street to keep people from walking into the road

  • City leaders say the plan is Orange Avenue and some of the surrounding side streets will no longer be open to pedestrian traffic at all on the weekends

Orange Avenue is normally closed to vehicle traffic, and open for people to get from on place to another, but that has now changed.

For the first time in 25 years, cars will be allowed to drive on Orange Avenue after 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

The owner of "The Glizzy Spot" in downtown Orlando says the new rules could be hard to keep up with, but is hopeful that business can thrive.

"Most of the people now they will not be in the street, they will be in the sidewalk," said Hussein Alzaro. "That's make big difference for us because we are our business mainly for the foot traffic, you know. So more food traffic, it's more business for us."

Bicycle barricades have been installed starting at Washington Street and going down to Pine Street to keep people from walking into the road.

City leaders say the plan is Orange Avenue and some of the surrounding side streets will no longer be open to pedestrian traffic at all on the weekends.