Public Voices for the New York City Carriage Horses

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**Keep the horses, but in the park (December 20, 2014: New York Daily News)**

Brooklyn: In response to the letter from Voicer Julie Cappiello, who wants to do away with the Central Park carriage horses: For centuries, horses were bred to pull heavy wagons, farm equpiment, Conestoga wagons, stagecoaches, etc. They were not, however, bred to contend with cars, trucks, buses, speeding cabs, rogue bikers (who have killed people in Central Park and injured many) and hordes of pedestrians, not to mention exhaust fumes. If people want to take a carriage ride in Central Park, that is just what they should do — the carriages should be confined to Central Park. If people want to go sightseeing on the streets, it should not be done with a carriage. They can get on a doubledecker bus. That is what they are there for. By the way, Julie, what do you think is going to happen to a lot of those horses? I don’t want to think about that. The horses don’t deserve what might happen. Rowena Lachant