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Carriages  PETA Pushes 'Horseless Carriages' in Central Park  By
Tina Susman on  Love and marriage, for Kelly Respess, are better
suited to a horseless carriage -- specifically, the antique Ford
that delivered her to her wedding on a busy Central Park corner.
It was a small but eye-catching salvo in the long-running war
between animal rights activists such as Respess and her groom,
Paul Kercheval, and the horse-drawn carriages that are as much a
fixture in Central Park as rats are in subway tunnels.  If the
Kerchevals have their way, a fleet of electric cars made to
resemble vintage automobiles will replace the hansom cabs --
retaining, the couple says, Central Park's old-world flavor
while relieving the beasts of their burden and being kind to the
environment. The newlyweds belong to People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, which recently began pushing the antique
car idea in New York.