Council member Chad West is pushing Dallas to ask Texas's next governor to undo the state order that forced Dallas to strip its painted crosswalks earlier this year.
In a memo to City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert, West asked her to contact the office of Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa and request reconsideration of the statewide directive, NBC 5 reported Thursday.
The memo lists 30 crosswalks, according to NBC 5:
- 10 multicolored crossings on Oak Lawn's Cedar Springs Road, the rainbow set among them
- 16 crossings with lettering at four intersections on Al Lipscomb Way and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
- four one-of-a-kind designs, at three Mahon Street locations and at the Lemmon-McKinney intersection
The city has said all of the nonstandard markings were privately paid for.
How they came out
Gov. Greg Abbott called in 2025 for the removal of what he described as political messaging on roadways, calling the designs a distraction to drivers and threatening to withhold state money from cities that did not comply, FOX 4 reported. In October 2025, TxDOT notified Dallas that its markings fell outside state guidelines.
The city asked for an exemption to keep the community-designed crosswalks, was turned down, and painted over them in March and April, including the Oak Lawn rainbows and the Black Lives Matter lettering near Fair Park.
After the Oak Lawn crosswalks were removed, residents raised money to paint the front steps of the Oak Lawn Library instead, NBC 5 reported.
