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Letters
Saratoga News website is welcome from afar
As a resident of Saratoga from 1972 to 1980 (1977 Saratoga High grad), it is a great way for me to be able to see what is going on in the town. I will ALWAYS call it my hometown. Keep up the great work and thanks for being there!
Bob Brennan
Huntington Beach
Tire-maker's new plan for colored treads is bad idea
Perhaps your readers have learned, as I did, of the plans by B.F. Goodrich to introduce tires with colored tread. Such tread would leave colored skid marks.
To make available to the general public such a product is to encourage reckless and dangerous driving--it is general knowledge that a locked wheel has no steering capability. Of course, this product would have great appeal to the younger generation--those whose driving skills and understandings of consequences have yet to mature.
A somewhat more localized, but significantly serious issue, is that of gangs. Gangs choosing to make their 'mark' in an opposing gang's territory would be encouraged to obtain such tires. From firsthand observation, I know that the 'tagging' of buildings and signs is a nationwide problem. Goodrich would be giving these persons another venue of expression.
A more socially responsible plan would be to develop a tire that left no marks! That would have the advantage of cleaning up our skid-marked highways. (Have you driven Highway 17 to Santa Cruz recently?)
I found the address for B.F. Goodrich corporate headquarters, and I pass it on to those readers wishing to express their concern as I did. Michelin America Small Tires, B.F.Goodrich, 1 Parkway South, P.O. Box 19001, Greenville, SC 29602-9001.
Ken Pannabecker
Los Gatos
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