While it's a good safety feature, it can be annoying on congested city streets. (autoexpress.co.uk)
While NYCLASS, short for New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, has long maintained horses are subject to abuse and injury when pulling carriages through congested city streets, the labor union representing the roughly 300 carriage drivers who would lose their jobs has organized an effective counter-attack. (observer.com)
The only reason that horse and buggies still work in the most congested city streets in the country is because Christine Quinn, the extraordinarily corrupt head of the NYC Council, has blocked all of the bills that would ban this trade or replace the carriages with electric cars. (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)