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Animal Rights Activists Call for ‘Carriage-Free’ Philly

Protesters gathered outside of City Hall on Sept. 26, 2022, to call for a ban on horse-drawn carriages in Philadelphia.
Tom MacDonald
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WHYY
Protesters gathered outside of City Hall on Sept. 26, 2022, to call for a ban on horse-drawn carriages in Philadelphia.

A group of animal rights activists joined together outside Philadelphia City Hall calling for an end to horse drawn carriages in the city. WHYY's Tom MacDonald reports.

(Original air-date: 9/26/22)

WHYY reporter Tom MacDonald is a lifelong Philadelphia-area resident who has worked in the region since the mid-1980s. Tom started in commercial radio covering the MOVE standoff with police for WFIL-AM. He was also City Hall Bureau Chief, covering government and politics for more than a decade, for WWDB-FM.