The Dallas City Council will vote Wednesday on whether or not to ban horse-drawn carriages from downtown.
Activists have long pushed to get the horse-drawn carriages banned and a new amendment to the city's code on Wednesday's agenda would remove them from the list of approved forms of transportation.
Some members of the Dallas City Council said they were concerned about the treatment of the horses that pull the carriages and the conditions they work in.
The group Ban Horse Carriages Dallas argued that having horses in close proximity to cars downtown could lead to a collision, and they point to accidents in Highland Park, McKinney, and Dallas over the past 10 years as examples.
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