City rules can change.

Horse-drawn carriage driver Dave Ford guides his horse Callie as he takes passengers for a ride in Chicago. (AP)
The photographs from the 1890s shows Chicago in a time when only horse-powered carts and carriages drove down the streets. (AP)
In Poland, a horse-drawn carriage is decorated to show tourists what their history looked like.
Before cars, even policemen in Chicago drove horse-drawn carts.
In snowy places, a horse-drawn carriage is called a sleigh.

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There won’t be clip-clopping on Chicago’s streets. The city has a new rule. No more carriage rides.

City leaders voted. They all agreed. City streets are not safe for horses.

READ MORE: Chicago carriage rides have been popular for decades. It’s fun to see a city from a horse-drawn carriage. But carriages cause traffic jams. Busy streets aren’t safe places for horses. Chicago city leaders voted to end carriage rides. Other cities ban carriage rides too. Some people will miss horse-drawn carriage rides. Even in Bible times, people trusted horses to take them places. Whom do we trust? “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God,” says Psalm 20:7.