Just as San Antonio and the state’s transportation agency seemed to be getting along, a new fight has broken out over the city’s rainbow crosswalk.

On Wednesday Gov. Greg Abbott joined other red-state leaders in demanding cities get rid of them, and threatened withholding state and federal funds for those that don’t comply within 30 days.

Even as city staff was still scrambling to unpack exactly what’s at stake , leaders all too familiar with past TxDOT feuds sounded resigned to a no-win situation.

“We don’t need crosswalks for pride, right?’ Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said at Thursday’s City Council meeting. “They’re nice to have, but that pride rolls on.”

San Antonio put a rainbow crosswalk at North Main Avenue and East Evergreen Street in June of 2018, and later designated the surro

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