Carolina Tails | June 30, 2022 By Dan Krosse ROME, BARCELONA, PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, NEW ORLEANS — CITIES AROUND THE GLOBE ARE LINING UP TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE E-CARRIAGE, BUILT RIGHT HERE IN CHARLESTON. BUT WHY DOES THE HOLY CITY APPEAR TO BE GIVING THE VENTURE THE COLD SHOULDER?
Kyle Kelly, a local King Street Shop Owner, apparently spent years carefully considering safety measures we promote. Will City Council help implement this humane resolution? https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/horseless-e-carriages-may-soon-hit-the-streets-of-downtown-charleston/
Carolina Tails | June 30, 2022 By Joe Elmore, President and CEO of Charleston Animal Society A HORSE CARRIAGE COMPANY’S LAWSUIT AGAINST ANIMAL ADVOCATES COLLAPSES IN COURT. Charleston Animal Society and other animal advocacy organizations and individuals won a major lawsuit brought against them to intimidate and stifle their efforts to bring humane reform to Charleston’s carriage tourist attraction. [...]
Did you know? “As a result of orders from the top judge in South Carolina, defendants who hire some lawmakers to serve as their defense attorneys could have their trials delayed indefinitely” Live 5 News
It is the right and duty of citizens and their organizations to offer measures that provide for the safety of our children, citizens, visitors and the animals that pull the wagons.
Window dressing or real safety reforms? Tourism Commission will decide the fate of the Safety Ordinance for Carriages.
A meeting of the Tourism Commission will be held Wednesday, June 23, 2021, at 5:00 p.m., virtually via Zoom Webinar. Use the following link for online access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83195964056?pwd=dUw1NVI2QnFyYUozS1NKRHArd3RzUT09
Sign-up to speak or leave comments for the Tourism Commission by completing the form a http://innovate.charleston-sc.gov/comments/
CCHA along with other stakeholders, including the Preservation Society of Charleston, Charleston Animal Society, Charlestown Neighborhood Association, and the Historic Ansonborough Neighborhood Association, have advocated for enhanced regulation of the Charleston carriage industry in an effort to address the risk of bodily injury that animal-drawn carriages pose to residents, visitors, industry employees, and the working animals.
On Sept. 11, the owners of the Chicago-based companies Antique Coach & Carriage, Great Lakes Horse & Carriage and Chicago Horse & Carriage banded together to file suit in Cook County Circuit Court against a group of defendants, individually represented by activists Jodie Wiederkehr and Debby Rubenstein, of the Chicago Alliance for Animals.
On the surface, it might seem a recent recommendation by the City of Charleston’s Carriage Animal Temperature and Heat Index Committee would make things better for carriage animals…
