Head downtown at the wrong time, when too many cars are trying to make left turns or there's a delivery truck outside one of the half-dozen boutiques downtown, and you're liable to sit through two or three rotations of the stoplight at the corner of Main and Nelson. … our cars. But even so, these streets are narrow and sometimes the visibility is poor: an oddly-parked SUV or a tall hedge and the next thing you know you're plowing into the side of some old lady's Gremlin. …

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