The Oak Lawn Gayborhood’s recently restored rainbow crosswalks could be destroyed any day now thanks to a 2013 Federal Highway Administration and a directive from Gov. Greg Abbott, according to reports by CBS News and other media outlets.

Cities that fail to remove rainbow crosswalks and any other crosswalk art stand to lose millions in federal road funding, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned governors in July. Abbott this week ordered the Texas Department of Transportation to start strictly enforcing that federal rule.

The 2013 rule prohibits any art in crosswalks, apart from certain patterns in earth tones, because such art “degrades pedestrian safety.”

Abott on Wednesday, Oct. 8, Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Transportation to “ensure counties and cities are in

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