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Houston-area elected officials are criticizing the removal of Montrose's rainbow crosswalks — and the city's handling of the removal process — after transit officials agreed to take out the decorative crosswalks hours after a directive by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott .

Meanwhile, residents of Montrose are still etching their own messages into the intersection of Westheimer Road and Taft Street, where the rainbow crosswalks were removed early Monday morning. By Tuesday morning, rainbow chalk art appeared on the sidewalks of the intersection, with messages like "love is love" and "be gay/do crime."

Another rainbow crosswalk, in recognition of the LGBTQ+ community, has been chalked in the Heights neighborhood. Anna Eastman, a former Houston ISD trustee an

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