New York City to Ban Happy Hours!?

New York City has one of the best public transportation systems in the world. You can travel by taxi, subway, train, boat, tram and horse drawn carriage. There are many cheap options to drinking and driving. So it’s somewhat of a surprise that the city is considering banning happy hour drink specials. So says Commissioner Thomas Farleygoals, in some thoughts he outlined in his “Take Care New York 2012” report. He said he aimed to “reduce risky alcohol use,” noting that alcohol-related hospitalizations in 2006 were roughly 209 per 100,000 people. His goal was to reduce this number to 170 per 100,000 by this year. Other long term goals include replacing silverware with plastic utensils and bubble wrapping pedestrians

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