As of this morning (Wednesday, June 18) work to replace the rainbow crosswalks on Cedar Springs Road is underway. The crosswalks began deteriorating soon after they were installed.
The city hopes to have the existing crosswalks removed today and the new crosswalks installed by some time tomorrow, according to one of the city employees working on the project. When the work is actually completed is dependent on the weather.
Getting our rainbows took years of the Mayor’s LGBTQ Task Force working with the city.
After years of petitioning the city to paint rainbow crosswalks in the Gayborhood and news stories about every other major city marking their gayborhoods with rainbows, work began on our crosswalks in February 2020. What distinguished the crosswalks in Dallas was that we’d have 10 rainbows up and down Cedar Springs Road. Most other cities had just two or four…