{"id":321348,"date":"2025-10-21T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/321348\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:23:11","slug":"report-san-antonio-steps-up-effort-to-keep-rainbow-crosswalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/321348\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: San Antonio steps up effort to keep rainbow crosswalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_1174-1-640x400.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Report: San Antonio steps up effort to keep rainbow crosswalk\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 An effort is underway to keep San Antonio\u2019s rainbow crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p>The colorful crossing, located at the intersection of North Main Avenue and Evergreen, has been in place since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive for communities to remove all roadway markings considered political or that support an ideology.<\/p>\n<p>He also instructed the Texas Department of Transportation to withhold funding from cities that fail to remove the markings.<\/p>\n<p>The only exemptions would be if the markings benefit public safety.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpr.org\/government-politics\/2025-10-20\/san-antonio-will-request-exemption-from-txdot-to-keep-rainbow-crosswalk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas Public Radio<\/a>, that\u2019s the route San Antonio officials will try to take.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that First Assistant City Attorney Liz Provencio told a meeting of the city\u2019s LGBTQ+ Advisory Commission that there has been a reduction in the number of traffic incidents since the crosswalk was installed.<\/p>\n<p>The city has until November 8 to file an exemption.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 An effort is underway to keep San Antonio\u2019s rainbow crosswalk. The colorful crossing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":321349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,5026,113212,7202,7203,358,3187,8320,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-321348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-greg-abbott","10":"tag-rainbow-crosswalk","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-txdot","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115412612507591380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321348","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=321348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}