Because Dallas waited until the last day to file for an exemption to an order to remove its rainbow crosswalks, Dallas is the last Texas city to get a final order to remove them. The city has until January 31 to remove them or face a loss of state and federal road funding.
The order says the rainbow crosswalks do not meet “uniformity standards” and, although safety has increased where the crosswalks have been installed, they didn’t have a licensed engineer’s safety seal.
In addition to the rainbow crosswalks, Dallas will have to remove Black Lives Matter crosswalks on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. It couldn’t have been racism that the order came on MLK Day…