Drag strips... street racing - The real issue
On the average of every six months I write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper.
Here is a recent contribution which the Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colorado printed recently. It will give some of you another perspective to consider regarding the building of a local track.
The potential law suits following an untimely unplanned accident may result in your track getting built! Especially so if your city is found negligent in resolving it's street racing problem. I provided the link to our local street racing website (oh yes... we are organized here )
You'll also love some of the wonderful characters on our posting board too! Morons with terrorist avatars ect... tree hugging liberals, and rice car dweebs.
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http://www.cosr.com/forum1/index.php?act=ST&f=58&t=15497&
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http://www.cosr.com/forum1/index.php?act=ST&f=58&t=15373&
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STREET RACING
City should pay for track to make streets safer
To the average reader, The Gazette report, "Despite dangers, racers won’t stop," leads one to believe that it is the racers who are entirely at fault (June 22). Some of us in Colorado Springs know better.
The comment from Mary Lou Porak was added to provide a basis for what? " ‘My generation raced, but nothing like this. We just played chicken on a country road,’ Porak said. ‘These guys have speed shops and Web sites and radios. This is organized crime on wheels.’ "
Take a moment to remind yourself about what occurred when these aging youngsters were once playing chicken out in the countryside. It involved two cars facing off against each other from an agreed to distance as their observing peers cheered and jeered them on to potential suicide. The combatants mustering their hormone-raged courage eventually stuck the cars in gear to race toward one another at break-neck speed.
The "chicken" was the individual who swerved out of the way at the last possible moment.
Colorado Springs has known about its hidden street racing involvement prior to the 1980s when I was doing it as an Air Force staff sergeant behind the Ampex industrial park located off Platte Avenue. A simple search through the court records will substantiate my position that the city is fully aware of its so-called street racing problem, and has known about it for many years.
All it will take to prove that the city has failed in protecting its population is for one of these young racers mentioned in the story to literally race through a crowd of onlookers.
The city threatens to take away the cars. What would be the result? That car would go to public auction where it will be eventually owned again by another hormone-raged teenager.
The city has consistently shown its failure in properly addressing this matter. If it were not negligent, street racing wouldn’t be the topic it is today. Pay up, City Council. The city should put up the funding and buy our kids a safe track.
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The second newest one is up by Beaumount and is a 1/4 mile track.
