{"id":379230,"date":"2026-10-22T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379230\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:36:11","slug":"twu-president-talks-bill-to-ban-horse-carriages-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379230\/","title":{"rendered":"TWU president talks bill to ban horse carriages in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council is set to hold a vote Thursday that would ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is known as Romanch\u2019s Law, which is named after an 18-year-old tourist who died in a horse carriage accident earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the bill say about 170 licensed carriage drivers will be put out of work during a time when the city\u2019s economy is already struggling.<\/p>\n<p>John Samuelsen, the president of the Transport Workers Union International, which represents the horse carriage drivers, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Wednesday to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Council is set to hold a vote Thursday that would ban horse-drawn carriages in New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,55,54,12,56,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-379230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}