Councilmember Abbie Kamin said she heard about the removal from residents who noticed machinery at the intersection of Taft and Westheimer.

HOUSTON — We have a big update on the rainbow crosswalk in Montrose that has been the subject of heated debate. 

The crosswalks is near the intersection of Westheimer and Taft. On Sunday night, we saw heavy machinery placed by the intersection. 

KHOU 11’s Orko Manna, who is covering this story for KHOU 11, was told by Houston Councilmember Abbie Kamin that the machinery was placed there by Metro and that the removal of the crosswalks will happen Monday morning. 

Governor Greg Abbott said that he wanted transportation departments across the state to remove what he called political ideologies from the roadways. 

Even though this directive came down from the governor, Councilmember Kamin said that she was supposed to be notified by Metro before the removal happened. She said that never happened. 

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She said she was notified by residents who was the machinery and informed her. 

We reached out to Metro Sunday evening, but have not heard back. As soon as they do respond, we’ll post it here. 

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Community members and advocates have put flowers and Pride flags to protest the removal of the rainbow crosswalks. There are also plenty of community advocates and residents chalking the sidewalk, as they have been doing over the past couple of weeks. It was a chalking event that was planned before the machinery showed up at the crosswalk. \

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“We had no idea that this construction or really demolition equipment would be here tonight,” said Dan Darusman, co-chair of QUEENs of Houston. “And it is not only offensive, it’s disappointing that our mayor doesn’t support us enough to fight back.”

The removal is supposed to happen Monday morning, but the timing at this point isn’t clear.  

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