Speeding is out of control on Cottle Avenue from Husted to Curtner avenues. It's bad, and what's even worse is that no one seems inclined to do anything about it.

The city of San Jose recently instituted a "traffic-calming" program on streets in the area and it seems very calm on Hicks Avenue, given the tremendous amount of resources thrown into the program.

So I wonder if Hicks Avenue residents ever had automobiles speeding down their street at 40 miles per hour the way residents on Cottle Avenue do. We have been putting up with it for years.

Since the traffic-calming program was started I've seen the photo radar unit twice on Cottle Avenue. Both times were at mid-morning and mid-afternoon, when only squirrels occupy the streets.

I challenge them to monitor this street when the real action occurs, between 7 and 8 a.m. and between 4 and 6 p.m. Traffic streams by my house in groups of six to eight cars during this time.

In all the years I have traveled Hicks Avenue—since 1935, mind you—I have never seen a comparable amount of traffic.

I guess the help goes to those who scream the loudest. We on Cottle have been much too quiet about our problems. I'm hoping to change this.

—Robert L. Smith, Cottle Avenue