SAN ANTONIO, Tx \u2014 The LGBTQ+ Advisory Board and the City of San Antonio are gearing up for a fight to save the Rainbow Crosswalk.<\/p>\n
\u201cSan Antonio is one of the last hold outs in this entire thing,\u201d James Poindexter said. I\u2019m asking everyone today to employ your city council member to call Abbott\u2019s bluff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poindexter of Pride Center San Antonio was talking about Governor Gregg Abott and his directive for the TXDOT to withhold funding from cities that do not remove all political ideologies from there streets. The Rainbow Crosswalk has been a symbol of hope in San Antonio\u2019s Pride Cultural Heritage District since 2018.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Provencio the City Attorney first assistant says there is an exemption that may allow San Antonio to keep the Rainbow Crosswalk. She says the city has data showing the Rainbow Crosswalk has made the intersection safer.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreviously t the installation of the Rainbow Crosswalk we have data going back three years,\u201d Provencio said. \u201cThat data showed there were two traffic incidents that had occurred, and since the installation of the crosswalk going on 8 years, we\u2019ve only had two instances.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jamie Zapata and Maria Salzar of the LGBTQ+ Advisory Board are hopeful the proposed exemption will save the Rainbow Crosswalk, but realistically they believe it will be shot down. Houston, Galveston, and Austin have already said they will comply with the governor\u2019s orders. Dallas is reviewing the order.<\/p>\n
Salazar, the chair of the LGBTQ+ Advisory Board says while she does believe the exemption will be successful they had to try. The exemption must be submitted by Nov. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Tx \u2014 The LGBTQ+ Advisory Board and the City of San Antonio are gearing up for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,5310,16947,39669,5603,160501,113212,7202,7203,358,3187,8320,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-320226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-exemption","11":"tag-governor-abbott","12":"tag-lgbtq","13":"tag-political-symbols","14":"tag-rainbow-crosswalk","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-txdot","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115410162379702438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}