More city people use horses as transport than country people.

[Davidsdaughter]

My biggest surprise moving to a city, was to find how many people use horses as a method of transport instead of cars. I would have expected it to be none, but in fact it is significantly more than in the countryside.

Am I in the only UK city where this is the case? Is this an increasing trend?

YANBU - horses are a valid and common city transport method
YABU- you live in the only place where this happens

On grass verges, in fields, on roundabouts, etc

Maybe it is a London thing

'Equine Contribution in Methane Emission and Its Mitigation Strategies'

So basically a serious scientific paper on farting and horseshit

Definitely an Ig Nobel prize winning candidate

Not just London then

Have you considered the possibility that the person at the pub with their horse was actually just really going on a horse ride and decided to stop off for a pint on a nice day?

That makes sense, also a higher density of people, so even if the same percentage own and use horses, you would still see more horses in the city.

They do if you only need to get from one side of the carousel to the other...

It is the same around here, tied up on bits of grass, although they are ridden too - maybe the ones you see are ridden sometimes?

What part of London are you in? Because the only time I’ve seen them are travellers right on the outskirts of the city and very rarely.

It's a common method of getting to the pub in our city.

Also lots of families travel in sulkys (sp?) here and our A road has a sign banning racing by horse-drawn vehicles.

I would like to have an actual discussion about this, hence the thread, and I see I am not in the only area where there are many horses. Its a shame people who have nothing to contribute have joined the thread just to clutter it up with silliness and mockery, and made it difficult to find relevant contributions from other people who are aware of city horses.

I was hoping someone who rides a horse in London might have said something, but with all this nonsense on the thread, why would they?

Just googled 'horses Bradford' ... the top hit wasn't about them being used for transport!

And Travellers or Romanies

I used to ride my horse to the shop as a kid, but I lived out in the country.

And lots of people who live in London have said it's not a thing. Where in London are you talking about?

No, that is not what happens in my street. It is quite often there the whole afternoon and evening, There are at least 3 or 4 that come regularly, sometimes together, sometimes separately, and others at other pubs.

South

I live in a village in Lancashire, we used to see someone with his dog out in a trap quite often.

When we lived in Pennsylvania, we were on the edge of Amish country and there were plenty of traps (or something... not sure if that's the right word) if we headed out that way. The oddest thing was seeing them in gas stations....
Amish people drive their horses to garages to fill up petrol cans, they can use the fuel for purposes other than cars.

Why would driving a pony cart cause chaos? They are no bigger than cars.

Op I want to see photos of horses just chilling on roundabouts or grass verges.

I am in London. I have never seen a horse used as a method of transport, other than by police or on a ceremonial occasion.

It's one of the maddest AIBU that I've ever seen, hence the mockery.

Go to Tesco and ask the horse people what they're up to if you want a serious discussion about it

Why would driving a pony cart cause chaos? They are no bigger than cars.

Usually slower and need quite a lot of room to overtake safely.

Buggy, that's the word for the Amish one-horse carriages.

I rode mine through the middle of York on a very early Sunday morning during lockdown (just because I wanted to do it, and it was the ideal opportunity to do so) but there's no way I would ride into London as a form of transport. No way on earth....