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Horses and carriages — which Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has promised to outlaw — wait for customers near Central Park in New York. Antique, electric cars could be on the horizon to replace them.
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Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio strongly reaffirmed his stance on ending Horse Carriages Rides.
"We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period,” de Blasio said on Monday in response to a question at his press conference announcing his schools chancellor pick, according to the New York Daily News.
“It’s over,” he said.
De Blasio said he would work with existing drivers to set them up with alternative vehicles to ferry tourists around Central Park.
De Blasio and advocacy groups who support him say it’s inhumane to make the horses work the dangerous city streets, but drivers insist their horses are well cared for and there’s no reason to end the industry.
“There are some moving parts to work out. But we are going to quickly and aggressively move to make horse carriages no longer a part of the landscape ... They are not humane, they are not appropriate for the year 2014. It's over. So, just watch us do it.”
De Blasio said he would work with existing drivers to set them up with alternative vehicles — perhaps antique cars — to ferry tourists around Central Park. He called electric vehicles “a cleaner, safer, wiser, more humane alternative that will be very appealing to tourists.”
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