Texas is getting it's first rainbow crosswalk representing and celebrating the LGBT+ community! It will go up at the intersection of Taft and Westheimer, and it's expected to be there for about 2 1/2 years because SURPRISE! construction. That part of Westheimer is set to be revamped in 2020 and completed in 2021, at which point they'll work on a permanent rainbow crosswalk.
The theme and site of thecrosswalk were chosen at the request of friends of Alex Hill, a twenty-one-year-old man killed in the same intersection after a hit and run crash in January 2016. The crosswalk will complement a traffic box mural painted nearby depicting Hill surrounded by friends with a rainbow sunburst in the background. (Press Release)