Sentences with phrase «carriage drivers from»

Carriage drivers from the Teamsters union struck back against Queens Councilman Danny Dromm today, rallying in his district against a proposed ban on horse - drawn carriages that the lawmaker enthusiastically endorses.

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These regulations cover everything from «pedicab driver permits» to «limit on number of taxicabs allowed,» «transfer of decal, permit, or taxiplate interest prohibited,» «currently permitted companies, vehicles, and drivers grandfathered; renewal process,» and «operation of horse drawn carriages: requirements and prohibitions.»

The best part is that they will do to pesky, dangerous human drivers what the horseless carriage did to the horse and buggy: banish them from the roads.

I often joke with my husband that I learn more about American history from the carriage tour drivers than I remember from my entire high school education.

But several aspects of the plan — including the use of $ 25 million in taxpayer money to turn public property into a stable for the private carriage industry, the move to curtail the pedicab industry, the loss of carriage driver jobs and the resulting shuttering the current stables on the West Side — have aroused considerable opposition from various corners, most recently from 68 owners of horse carriage medallions, who blasted their union for agreeing to the deal.

Earlier today, Towleroad posted video of a disturbing incident which took place over LGBT Pride in which a carriage horse driver hurled racist, sexist, homophobic slurs at a group of women leafleting nearby, along with a letter from Martina Navratilova condemning the incident and urging Speaker Christine Quinn to do so as well.

It's unclear how the current taxi fleet, already under pressure from app - based competitors that they consider essentially rogue taxi companies, will feel about carriage drivers being jumped to the front of the green taxi medallion line.

That pits the Council against Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents the horse - carriage drivers and is supporting the de Blasio plan, which not only calls for shrinking the horse carriage industry and moving it to Central Park, but also banning pedicabs from the park's southern, tourist - heavy precincts.

In a statement, George Miranda, president of Joint Council 16, said the bill had moved forward «without input from the union that represents these drivers,» though he insisted «the Teamsters and our members in the carriage industry are open to continued dialogue and discussion with the administration so we can find a solution that keeps the horses and drivers in Central Park.»

UPDATE: George Miranda, president of Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents horse carriage drivers, said in a statement this morning that the de Blasio administration's bill to stop horse carriage rides by 2016 was done without input from the union, but that he and the members are «open to continued dialogue and discussion with the administration so we can find a solution that keeps the horses and drivers in Central Park.»

The plan also calls for restricting pedicabs from operating below 85th Street, severely downsizing the ground pedicabs are allowed to operate on and essentially freeing up the most popular parts of the park for the carriage horse drivers.

We look forward to working together on the final details of this legislation and getting this passed,» said a joint statement from de Blasio, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Teamsters officials George Miranda and Demos Demopoulos as well as carriage driver Stephen Malone.

The union representing the carriage drivers, Teamsters Local 553, has received support from the city's Municipal Labor Council as well as from Vinny Alvarez, president of the New York City Central Labor Council, and the Working Families Party.

The union made headlines in the past year for representing horse - carriage drivers in their fight with Mr. de Blasio, who has sought to ban horse - drawn carriages from city streets.

It automatically applies the brakes if a train passes a red light, it slows speeding trains, and it prevents a driver accelerating away from a section of track covered by a temporary speed limit until the last carriage is clear.

At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his rifle, and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: Mattie hurriedly pulled on her robe, her mind prepared for the alarm of war, but the heart stricken that it would finally have come, and down the stairs she flew to see through the open door in the lamplight, at the steps of the portico, the two horses, steam rising from their flanks, their heads lifting, their eyes wild, the driver a young darkie with rounded shoulders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no one but her aunt Letitia Pettibone of McDonough, her elderly face drawn in anguish, her hair a straggled mess, this woman of such fine grooming, this dowager who practically ruled the season in Atlanta standing up in the equipage like some hag of doom, which indeed she would prove to be.

The carriage from Woodford was approaching, trunks strapped to its roof, the horses bowing their way up the hill, the driver dabbing at their broad backs with his whip.