@ny1: The bill the City Council will vote on Thursday that would ban horse carriages in the city would also require the mayor's office to develop a plan by next April to help remaining carriage drivers find work. But John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union International, which represents horse carriage drivers, said that the idea that retraining workers is in the bill is "utterly false." "There's nothing concrete at all," he said. "The language says consideration will be given. The language should not say that."