Letters & Editorials
Am-NY
11/12/07
As
the holiday season approaches, some tourists will want to take that
deceptively romantic horse-drawn carriage ride through congested areas
of midtown Manhattan. Pulling overloaded carriages on asphalt for nine
hours a day in cold weather is miserable enough for the horses. Add
exhaust fumes, holiday traffic and startling noises and, well, you have
a recipe for disaster. After the death of yet another carriage horse in
September and a City Comptroller's audit revealing horrible working
conditions, you would think that the Mayor and City Council would have
learned something.
Well, one courageous lawmaker has. In early December, City Council Member Tony Avella will offer a bill to ban horse-drawn carriages. Without support from city residents, the carriage horse industry's friends in the Bloomberg administration and the City Council will see to it that the bill dies in committee. --
Jill Weitz, Bronx
Coalition To Ban
Horse-Drawn Carriages
A Committee of the Coalition For New York City Animals, Inc.
Contact:
The Coalition for
NYC Animals, Inc.
P.O. Box 20247
Park West Station
New York, NY 10025
e-mail
Coalition@banhdc.org
To honor
Bobby II Freedom
previously known as Billy
ID# 2873
rescued by the Coalition to
Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages and
Equine Advocates on June 25, 2010
from the New Holland auctions.
In memory of
Lilly Rose O'Reilly
previously known
as Dada ID# 2711
R.I.P.August, 2007