Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages

On any given day, you will find carriage horses being left unattended and untethered at the hack line while their drivers socialize with other  drivers and fail to pay attention; making dangerous u-turns in heavy traffic around the Central Park Area. You will see carriages being over loaded because no one in authority is monitoring the situation.  And this does not even begin to touch on their living conditions, which include no turnout to pasture; "legally"working 9 hours a day, 7 days a week; stalls,which are legal,but less than half the size of what experts recommend.  See The Top 15 Reasons why NYC Should Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages. 

Politicians- do not be left behind.  Please open your minds and your hearts. If you do not care about horse welfare - then you need to consider people and  the human safety issue - flimsy open carriages; most importantly, the nature of a 1,500-2,000 pound animal whose first instinct is to flee the scene when frightened becoming an unwitting weapon.  Around the world people have been killed because of out-of-control carriage horses spooking -- both passersby and those in carriages.  A five-year old girl; an elderly woman, a young boy.   It is only a matter of time before it happens in NYC  because the conditions are ripe.  Please help to bring NYC into the 21st century and help relegate this dangerous business to the coal bins of history.