When you turn off 212th (a 30 mph street) onto 52nd, 52nd is a four lane street with an additional left turn lane in the middle; even so, the speed limit is 25 but you’re totally unprepared for that. Farther down the street it does become a two lane street, and the speed limit is 25 there, too. But the cops sit among some buildings on the left just after you turn onto this 4-lane marvel and they snag drivers regularly. There is a sign a block or so down that tells you there might be blind people in the area, but in the 30 years I’ve driven down the street I have never seen a single pedestrian.

4/2008