Patricia J. Saffran With no proof whatsoever, the NYC Council is saying that carriage rides are dangerous, their main reason for wanting to ban them. In reality, horse drawn carriages are the safest form of transportation in the City with the lowest accident rate. Further, the Council members hope that the public won’t notice the lack of logic in their aggressive propaganda to ban the carriage rides. They’re attempting to convince the public that their ban, with a provision to retire the horses and prevent them from ever working again, is…