Incoming NY mayor says carriage trade will go

Incoming New York City mayor Bill de Blasio says he volition press caput amongst plans to destination the  Incoming NY mayor says railroad vehicle merchandise volition go
Incoming New York City mayor Bill de Blasio says he volition press ahead amongst plans to destination the city’s Central Park railroad vehicle trade. Photo: Kevin Case

New York City’s mayor-elect is promising to comport out a stimulate pledge to convey the Big Apple’s horse-drawn railroad vehicle merchandise to an end.

Bill de Blasio, who takes component on New Year’s Day, says he volition halt horse-drawn carriages plying their merchandise through Central Park.

De Blasio told a press conference on Monday: “They’re non humane. They’re non appropriate to the twelvemonth 2014. It’s over. We are going to larn rid of the Equus caballus carriages. Period.

“We are going to chop-chop in addition to aggressively deed to brand Equus caballus carriages no longer a component of the landscape.”

The novel mayor, who has non indicated a time-frame for the move, tin await a struggle from the railroad vehicle trade.

The carriages are a tourist icon for the city, but opponents state the busy inner metropolis is no house for horses, citing several incidents where horses direct maintain been injured.

Its backers debate the manufacture is well-regulated in addition to the horses are good kept.

De Blasio has talked close replacing the horses in addition to carriages amongst electric-powered antique cars to furnish function for the drivers.

The novel mayor may non uncovering filling his pledge easy, amongst manufacture spokeswoman Christina Hansen telling local media that drivers were prepared to struggle inwards courtroom to continue the concern going.

She told the New York Daily News: “It’s non over. You cannot but larn rid of a business, a perfectly legal well-regulated … but because a few people don’t similar it.

“If he wants to ban them because they’re unsafe in addition to inhumane, he needs to assay that.

“Our tape shows nosotros direct maintain attention of our horses in addition to our horses are treated humanely.”

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