Let me see if I’ve got this right: Greg Abbott gets his knickers in a twist over the recently-repainted rainbow crosswalk on Westheimer at Taft, after having been spun up about it by some online wingnuts. These crosswalks are no longer “compliant” with federal transit regulations because the babies in the current administration are triggered by them.
So then Metro preemptively surrenders after Mayor Whitmire kept his mouth shut, at least publicly, about the whole thing, which made people that Metro and the Mayor didn’t care about mad and also made the Chronicle mad. San Antonio, meanwhile, said um, yeah, we’ll get back to you and continued about their business. So far, nothing has happened to them or their still-existing rainbow crosswalks.
Have I missed anything? In the end, the best thing anyone said about this was on the Weird Sh*t in the Heights (Houston) Facebook group:
Do with that what you see fit.
Background article: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-war-on-rainbow-crosswalks-comes
Also, it appears Rep. Brian Harrison, who represents Ennis County, pop 192,455 (2020) found a way to attack the 5 million people of Harris County. He was aided by right wing Twitter/x, C Raichik.
The rainbow crosswalk at Taft and Westheimer is still there today. There has already been enough construction on Westheimer and Montrose, so no need to make more problems by changing the crosswalks. I think that the brightly colored crosswalks are better. They are more visible. I don’t know if it is true that Tx. DOT will fix potholes the same day if you paint rainbows in them. I doubt it.
This is just the usual Christian White Nationalists doing everything possible to erase lgbtq+ people because their extreme view of religion does not tolerate the existence of such people.