Abstract: The invention relates to a tire having tread of a cap/base configuration. The tread contains a thin electrically conductive rubber strip in the form of an extension of said tread base rubber layer which extends radially outward from the tread base rubber layer through an electrically resistive tread cap rubber layer to and including its running surface circumferentially around the tread to thereby provide a path of electrical conductivity through the tread cap layer to its running surface. The composite of the electrically non-conductive tread cap rubber layer and electrically conductive strip at the running surface of the tire tread have a similar abradability.