The city of Dallas is requesting to be exempted from Gov. Greg Abbott’s order directing Texas cities to remove rainbow crosswalks and other non-standard road designs promoting “political ideologies,” according to a press release Friday.

City manager Kimberly Tolbert submitted the request to the Texas Department of Transportation Thursday, a day before the deadline for cities to comply with the order.

Tolbert’s letter asks for 30 crosswalks to be exempted, all within historically LGBTQ and Black neighborhoods.

“The city's decorative crosswalks are a form of government speech, expressing civic values and community identity through design in a manner that is consistent with the city's authority to manage and maintain its streets,” Tolbert said in the letter. “The state's demand for remo

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