According to the The Forum News Group, Mayor De Blasio's propsal to ban carriage horses in Central Park is meeting greater opposition than he thought. De Blasio’s proposal would phase out carriage horses by May 2016 and replace them with antique, electric automobiles. The bill would also provide the city’s 300 licensed carriage horse drivers with free job training and permits to become green taxi drivers.
A recent story in the New York Post indicated that the mayor’s proposal, introduced last December, is stalled in the City Council’s Transportation Committee with little support.
To read the complete story, please go to the Forum website, where you can read about the two sides to this issue.