Solution to carriage horses is more pedestrian streets

The Parking and Traffic Committee of the City of St. Augustine needs to rise above their Babbitry -- their offensive, vicious, selfish, self-aggrandizing provincial hickdom and their vacuous, mind-altering economic self-interest -- factors that led the City of St. Augustine to violate artists' rights and order them arrested.

Now hear this ex-Vice-Mayor SUSAN BURK and ex-Mayor LEONARD WEEKS).

PTC must recommend closing more downtown streets to traffic, making them pedestrian malls like St. George Street.

This will be safer for horses and people, while allowing merchants to prosper. Compare the PETA letter below, which rightly raises concerns about horses and cars being driven on the same streets.

There are no cars (or trucks) on the Williamsburg, VA city streets during daylight hours. No beer trucks clog Duke of Gloucester Street, subjecting tourists views to a scene "teared, bleared and smeared with trade," as the late Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins put it.

What do you reckon?