Weak.
Metro board chair Elizabeth Brock on Thursday stood by the agency’s decision to remove the Montrose rainbow crosswalk this week after a Houston resident asked why it was erased so quickly.
“My primary concern is how quickly y’all allowed this to happen without giving LGBTQ+ Houstonians the time or space to process this removal to grieve,” David Mendoza said during the public comment period at Metro’s board meeting. “Gov. Abbott gave cities 30 days to comply or risk funding, and y’all removed it in 12 days.”
Brock said the decision was not taken lightly.
“It was something that we had to do because of a mandate, and whether we did it in 12 days or whether we did it in 30 days, we had a responsibility, and we met our responsibility, because at the end of the day, we are a transit authority, and we have to meet our community,” she said.
This is, to put it gently, baloney. Metro didn’t meet its community before it did this, because if it had they would have been told in no uncertain terms to fight it, or at least wait until those who did want to fight it took their swing. San Antonio and Austin have shown what else could have been done, if Metro and its Chair hadn’t been in such a rush to comply. You failed, Elizabeth Brock, and now you are being called on it. Stop making excuses for it.
Elect a DINO as mayor, expect a MAGAt infestation.
Confident that she ordered this at the behest of the current mayor who tolerates dissent very not well
Another lying Fascist. What does one expect from these cowards? They face no accountability, nothing. What ugly ass people.
Remember, Whitmire is just a balder Abbott.
lol needing time to grieve public road paint is just plain silliness .
Adoile, I am going to argue that it is not a stretch to mention grief. When something makes us sad, it is because we are feeling a loss, facing a new and worse reality. The state-mandated destruction of this neighborhood landmark is more than just paving over a crosswalk. It not only destroys a symbol of unity but reminds all of us that we are living under a dictatorship in Texas that has embraced hatred and will use it as a weapon against the innocent people of this neighborhood in the future. This is the new and worse reality that I am experiencing, and I am mourning the continuing suppression of our freedoms and our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That said, the supposedly Christian oil billionaire bastards that own Abbott reached into this neighborhood and forced this very deliberately in order to wound the good folk who live there. That completely sucks, and should be even more impetus to vote all of these GOP turds out of office.
I drove over it today. The crosswalk is now nowhere near as eye catching as it was before, and will all but disappear when the asphalt turns gray and the white paint gets dirty enough to match.
“It’s about safety” my foot.
Someone should put up a small white cross where the rainbow crosswalk used to be.
Grieving road paint is useless grief. The ‘movement’ is still alive, right ? Save it for an actual loss, like the Shamrock Hotel (historical) or I-45 running through downtown (future).
We will get the crosswalk back, someday. Start by getting rid of Whitmire. C.L., someone I knew died crossing Westheimer there, before the crosswalk was painted. Maybe you all would be more sympathetic if some asshole came in and wiped out one of your culturally significant neighborhood landmarks. Adoile, anti-woke means anti-Black.
Just sayin’.
J, there’s some missing conflation in your argument – are you saying some asshole hit and killed your acquaintance, who was legally walking in the crosswalk after the traffic signal signalled it was safe for him/her to walk solely because it hadn’t yet been rainbow’d ? It wasn’t someone who just failed to stop at a red light and it wasn’t just some entitled Porsche driver who thought 100mph on Westheimer was a good idea until she hopped a curb and hit a guy on the sidewalk ?
I’m with you – a rainbow crosswork is certainly eye catching (as is white striping), but the lack of a rainbow doesn’t negate the requirement that an individual in a car stop at a red light for pedestrians. ALL deaths are tragic for someone.
If you’ve read any of my posts, you know I’m no fan of the current Mayor.