Central Park carriage drivers pushing city for more bathroom relief: You cant leave a horse

“Neigh”-ture calls.Central Park horse carriage drivers are urging the city for some “relief” when it comes to bathroom access, The Post has learned.The drivers — who are sometimes forced to use nearby restaurant bathrooms and even go in the street or “diaper” where the horse goes — have been pushing city agencies for “years” to install more hitching posts to safely tether horses, according to industry spokesperson Christina Hansen.The drivers have also asked for the city to build a permanent carriage stand closer to one of the four public restrooms on the south end of the park where they operate, the rep said.

“Taxi drivers have to pull over, [but] we have to have our horse securely tethered or have someone watch the horse,” Hansen said.“For a long time we’ve been asking the city for this,” driver Ahmed of added hitching posts.“It’s not a car where I can turn off the engine and take the key and go to the restroom.

It’s an animal.”While it has been a “slow process” with a “lot of back-and-forth” to get their needs met, Hansen said she has seen a willingness from agencies “to work on coming up with solutions.”The Post was directed by several city agencies to the DOT and Department of Consumers and Worker Protections.Both departments did not immediately return a request for comment.Hansen admitted that, as a result of limited bathrooms, drivers oftentimes aren’t “as well-hydrated” during the busy winter season.Park bathrooms aren’t always open at night, she said — and some restrooms are closed for the winter or could have a 30-minute-long line during a ride.With so few bathroom options, one driver said some workers even urinate in the same “diaper” worn by horses and meant to catch animal feces, according to a video interview posted to YouTube by animal advocate Mike Petrelli.The drivers’ remarks come just days after a group of Big Apple taxi drivers demanded bathroom break parking placards from the c...