Philadelphia Set to Replace Horse Carriages with Electric Carriages

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Philadelphia is set to replace horse-drawn carriages with electric carriages after members of the Brady Hunter Foundation offered to provide electric carriages to replace horse-drawn throughout the city. This offer comes with a guarantee from city councilman Mark Squilla to introduce legislation to ban horse-drawn carriages this year. If the legislation passes, Philadelphia will become the first city in the United States to retire its horses in favour of electric. 

There is a long, drawn out debate over horse-carriages and whether they belong on our streets any longer. Horse-carriage operators have long argued that the horses they "employ" are treated with kindness and love, and are well taken care of, but refuse to touch on the obvious perils that these horses face in today's society. Horse-carriages were once the main mode of transportation in our history, but today, they are nothing more than novelty rides for tourists. These carriages have to finagle busy streets full of vehicular pollution, often times in very hot / very cold or wet weather. Outside of weather, they face the possibility of vehicular collisions, pollution ingestion, and stress from all of the noise and commotion around them. Not to mention the many videos we've all unfortunately seen of horses collapsing on busy streets. 

The fact is, horse-drawn carriages belong in our history, not on today's streets. The only responsible thing to do is retire the horses to sanctuaries after their many years of service and move to electric. If this becomes law in Philadelphia, my hope is that other states that continue to offer these novelty rides to tourists will also follow suit. Even one horse collapsing is one too many, and a clear indication that they just don't belong on our busy streets any longer. Retiring the horses in favour of electric is the responsible, humane, and compassionate thing to do and Philadelphia is setting the bar high for the remainder of the United States.

It's time to end horse-drawn novelty rides and shift to electric models. Retire the horses!

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