The horse
carriage drivers do have a bit of star power on their side, though — actor Liam Neeson has been a vocal defender of the industry.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.»
It
does mean that a
driver should think twice about how much room he needs to pass another car, or a horse - drawn
carriage, for that matter.
However, the cover doesn't apply to goods
carriage driver if he is not the owner.
We
did one of those
carriage rides and our
driver told us all sorts of great stories and showed us all kinds of special architectural features there!