Once vibrant and painted streets in Jacksonville are now just black roadways after the city started its efforts to repaint the crosswalks to comply with the state’s requirements.

The city had until Thursday to have six noncompliant locations removed. The move came after the Florida Department of Transportation required cities to remove “non-standard surface markings” or risk losing state funding.

As of Sunday, the colorful crosswalks were all wiped out. The remaining two in San Marco and Five Points were repainted.

Madison Mayerlen was disappointed to see the rainbow crosswalk in 5 Points removed.

“It’s really upsetting. I feel this was a safe space for LGBTQ+. It’s a crosswalk. It doesn’t hurt anybody,” Mayerlen said.

In response to the change, people began filling in the now blank s

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