Texas governor calls for removal of rainbow crosswalks, calling them a safety issue
Texas governor calls for removal of rainbow crosswalks, calling them a safety issue
America’s war on color continues.
Waiting for them to ban rainbows from kindergartens.
So there's this daycare down the street from me. It has had a rainbow colored access ramp for as long as I can remember.
It's now painted black.
It could be completely unrelated, but I highly doubt it.
Just like the famous Rolling Stones song. "I see a kindergarten access ramp and I want it painted black..."
If it had grip sand integrated into the paint it would make sense that it needed repainted, and getting one color of deck paint is cheaper, and black paint absorbs more sunlight so they need to salt less.
Still sucks, but it’s the same reason we can’t have cool cars anymore.
You should complain.
Or at least, the non-bigoted daycare parents should. A huge part of this problem is caused by a relatively few assholes going full Karen about their own fucking hangups and making them everyone else's problem. The solution is that decent people need to get EVEN LOUDER AND MORE PISSED OFF than they are, so that decision makers understand whose opinion actually matters here.
So which is it, a safety issue, or a "political ideology" issue?
And since when has a group of people existing been a "political ideology"?
The existence of anyone not straight, white, wealthy and christian has always been political in the USA
The problem is that there pushing their culture onto everyone else.
They know what they're doing. They want to encourage more people to be gay.
If giving people judgment free spaces to be themselves makes more people gay then so bit, I’m sorry freedom scares you.
The problem is that there pushing their culture onto everyone else.
This is so fucking priceless, it should be in a museum.
Please inform me which part of their culture they are "pushing" on everyone else, that way I can ask you why it's okay for the straights to do it, but nobody else gets to.
LGBTQ people exist. That's something you can never, ever change. So maybe get over it and stop saying that them existing in public is somehow negatively impacting anyone who isn't just a scared little bigot.
Colored streets is all it takes huh? Then we’re truly at risk of a birth-pocalypse.
Wait are you implying Greg abbot thinks rainbows make people gay? Or you think rainbows make people gay? If we removed like a color or two would it not be gay? Like take out 3 colors at random and it becomes a national flag. But too many color = gay? Bending light is gay? I guess it ain’t straight cuz it’s bent.
Yeah, it's not the rainbow crosswalk that's making you feel attracted to people the same sex as you. That's something within you that makes you feel that way. And that's fine. If you want to repress those feelings that's a choice you make for yourself.
But we can't structure our society around some people's need to repress their gay feelings.
If the rainbow crosswalk makes you unsure of your sexuality, that's a you issue. Straight people don't have to make themselves straight, they just are. Straight men don't have to make themselves not want dick. And so long as seeing symbols is forcing culture, I never want to see a cross again, stop shoving your lifestyle down my throat
Hell yeah I do. Straight people suck.
So far Austin has sworn to comply and SAN ANTONIO has refused! Cant believe we lost Austin first!!
They both only care about leftist issues when it makes property owners more money.
Want to add a + I visited San Antonio a few years back and it’s in my top 5 favorite cities now. Absolute gem.
Keep Austin Bland!
Time to paint the roads. Bring guns jic they get triggered and Sen thugs like they did in Florida
Good riddance, those rainbow crosswalks jumped me stole my wallet, and dressed me up as a woman 6 times last week.
Maybe you should have worn something less provocative. Rainbow crosswalks will be rainbow crosswalks, after all.
If rainbow sidewalks were actually unsafe, the engineers would know it already (because that's their fucking job) and wouldn't need a goddamned politician to tell them.
That's 100% proof by itself (as if we needed any more) that Abbott is a bigot and a liar.
Fascists are anti intellectual after all.
Whatever happened to that "libertarian" way of thinking? Used to be that they wouldn't listen to no goddamn politician now every one of those gadsden flag touting fucks are on their knees awaiting their favorite politician to tell them to say "ah".
Actual libertarians support people like Bernie Sanders. (Yeah, he's big on social programs, but he's also bigger on civil liberties than most Democrats, let alone Republicans.)
Politics are more tribal than ideological. Most people just repeat the slogans of their political tribe without putting too much thought into it. So calling out hypocrisy does nothing, most of politics isn't really about having a consistent ideology.
They technically are unsafe. They screw with Seeing Eye Dogs. That being said, it's just as easy to hang Pride Flags at cross walks.
RNIB Scotland Director, James Adams, said: “Traditional black and white pedestrian crossings offer high contrast, which is essential for people with low vision to detect and cross roads safely. Designs and colours which are not consistent with traditional designs could cause confusion to people with sight loss, and to guide dogs which are trained to stop at crossings.
You'll also have to train dogs to recognize both approaches because the starting color will be different.
They technically are unsafe. They screw with Seeing Eye Dogs.
I think this might be true. Do you know of any published studies on this?
Oh the colorblind seeing eye dogs? 🤔
"Texans expect their taxpayer dollars to be used wisely," which apparently means removing already existing crosswalks and making new ones, for no other reason than the manbaby is afraid of rainbows.
dont forget about the state freezing over each year, people dying, and the govt not doing shit to negate this problem for next year.
The Texas governor is a safety issue
Hold him dkwn and paint rainbows on his face
Terrified of a rainbow.
I wish my town had a gay cross walk, so then there would be more gay people. Rainbows make people gay and gay people throw great parties and have nice communities. I need that shit in my town.
Be the gay you need. Once you get the gay it will spread and make more people get gay. Gay the fuck out of the place. Gay that mother fucking town up!
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA GAY IS WHAT WELL BEE
Damn right they're a safety issue.
I was crossing one the other week. Boom. Gay. Just like that. Had to get a divorce and everything.
Sorry for your loss. I become gay but my partner became trans, so it still worked out.
What's a real "safety issue" is this nazi fucking regime.
Also, unmarked crosswalks are perfectly safe because drivers know pretty much every intersection has an implied crosswalk whether marked or not. This comment has been brought to you by the letter S and viewers like you.
You must have missed the post the other day, where some idiot texting ran over a girl in a crosswalk, then got out of his car to yell at her
This is just embarrassing.
Lol I'm sure this is about safety and not a guy trying to feed a bunch of haters red meat so they don't look at the death rates in texas hospitals
I kind of suspect that it's not safety driving his concern --- this isn't exactly something that would warrant state-level concern --- but I do think that it's a bad precedent to be modifying street markings for political reasons.
It should be possible to find plenty of places in Austin that are okay with putting up signs or murals --- things that aren't street markings --- that are pro-LGBT messages. That avoids the whole issue that they're arguing over.
kagis
After an LGBTQ+-inclusive church in Austin, Texas, was vandalized on Thursday, the community came together to transform the act of hate into something beautiful.
The vandals tore down the Pride flag at Life in the City UMC and graffitied “Pride was the 1st sin” on the front of the building. Afterward, volunteers joined the church for a “creative restoration project” to transform the graffiti into a mural featuring two Progress Pride flags flanking the church doorway.
I really think that this is a better approach if one wants to put out a message.
EDIT: Also, on purely-pragmatic grounds, I suspect that the road surface is probably about the most wear-heavy place to paint something. Like, paint something on a wall, and it doesn't have vehicle tires tearing it up and requiring frequent repainting to look decent.
EDIT2: You can even see a mural on a building about ten feet behind the rainbow crosswalk in the article's picture. Which one looks in better condition to you, the crosswalk or the mural?
I think something people might be missing here with painting the crosswalk is that paint can make the crosswalk much more visible. Streets murals, and crosswalk paint can cause drivers to slow down. Going further paint can be used to create an optical narrowing effect which causes drivers to subconsciously be more cautious and thus slow down. Slower speeds makes streets safer which directly saves lives. It's not just political, it's proven - Look up daylighting and optical narrowing.
In general agree, the small counterpoint is that it makes the surface slicker -- so long stretches is bad. Within the crosswalk should be fine, I just wouldn't make a 40ft painted stretch in front of the crossing, you know? Sudden change in grip is bad.
(This is anecdotal, I assume it's feasible to make a sufficiently grippy paint, it's just something I notice when driving)
Look. I don't disagree on the safety thing. We chose white reflective lines for high contrast and visibility for what it is. We don't paint our stop signs brown or green, and we don't wear blue high-vis vests.
The crosswalk is a bad thing to colour up. I like what the Iceland solution was:
Anyway, here I've gone and agreed with a Republican and suggested safety markings should be consistent, so get with the downvoting.
I'm going to downvote you but only because you didn't even glance at the article.
The pictured approach is clearly one in which the safety markings remain visible and contrast sufficiently with the bright rainbow colors.
Something someone did in Iceland isn't relevant. Maybe in their culture it's considered polite to mow down pedestrians, there's no way to know.
You definitely can wear blue high vis vests. I have them in orange, yellow, blue ,green, pink, red and white.
The crosswalk in the photo has reflective white paint intact, and according to standard. Do you think sidewalk chalk is bad for safety too? Should we ban kids from using sidewalk chalk? Should we just ban color combinations and outdoor art?
It's an issue for the safety of his fragile worldview and values.
We should remove all safety and handicap ramps that lean to the left. For safety
His sycophants would carry him on a large palanquins and only the poor would suffer. It’s a shame you can’t make him suffer the fate of his disabled peers. These people will probably never be punished under their own rules unfortunately