
Sinan Alpasan, the director of public works and parks for the municipality, tells Riverfront Times that the matter was first raised by the citizen-led Traffic Commission, which advises the University City Council on matters related to its roadways. The commission seems to have a consensus in favor of the ban, one that he says he shares.
"It's hard for a bicyclist to know when their bicycle is going to cross the tracks at any given point," he says.…