The title… compassion is a word I referred to in my last post. A word I heard a distraught and angry courier say repeatedly on CP24 (Toronto TV channel) a few hours after the death of his friend and fellow cyclist Darcy Allan Sheppard.
Compassion is definitely not what I am sensing from Toronto drivers and some newspaper columnists. This article in Friday’s Globe and Mail by columnist Marcus Gee is one example in a string of articles since the much publisized death of Darcy Sheppard that highlights my point. They are using his death as a way of shaking the public finger at all cyclists and laying blanket accusations that all cyclists run red lights, and ride unpredictably.
