Thank you for your article about Thomas McBride’s tragic death, and the legal proceedings against his assailant [September 21]. Like Randy Neufeld I’m not sure this article is really about bicycles and traffic.
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I am hoping that the unspeakable tragedy we suffered on September 11 will prompt us as a nation to do more than just wave flags and demand revenge. We need to ask a few questions. Why do so many people around the world hate us so passionately? When do we stop spending our money on the violent dreck that Hollywood tells us we want? Does it really matter how Gary Condit spends his free time? And is there some relationship between the violence inflicted on New York most recently and the violence inflicted on a bicycle messenger two years ago on the west side of Chicago?
Sometimes pedestrians compli-ment me for actually stopping at traffic lights. One asked me once if
