Sentences with phrase «banning pedicabs»

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.

De Blasio's plan to ban pedicabs from Central Park below 85th Street will put the final nail in the coffin of an industry loathed by most New Yorkers, advocates and drivers said.

Not exact matches

Mr. de Blasio promised to ban the industry outright on «day one» of his administration, but many days later proposed a compromise deal instead — one that would restrict the horses to Central Park, see taxpayers fund a $ 25 million stable for the private industry on public land, and ban one form of competition, pedicabs, from operating in the tourist - rich southern part of the park.

In a mad - dash effort to persuade council members that a pedicab ban in the southern end of the park makes little sense, pedicab drivers have held rallies and called legislators.

They also won't get much competition from pedicabs, which will be banned south of the 85th Street Transverse in the park.