Dallas Removes Rainbow Crosswalks On Gov’s Order

Dallas’s NPR affiliate reports:

The City of Dallas began removing crosswalks honoring Black and LGBTQ+ people Monday after an October directive from Gov. Greg Abbott ordering all “political,” non-standard surface markings be removed. “We weren’t prepared to see all of them removed this week,” said Tony Vedda, CEO and president of the North Texas LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, as he watched a truck affixed with a power washer spray down one crosswalk. “It was a little bit of a shock to us, and the end of a long road.”

Most of the crosswalks were not painted using public funds. In the case of many of the rainbow crosswalks, Vedda’s organization began fundraising for the project in 2019. He said by 2020 the group gave the city a check for $128,250 to install the crosswalks. The LGBTQ chamber raised another $45,000 and had the crosswalks repainted in 2025 just a few months before Abbott’s order.

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