Florida’s Crosswalk Crackdown: Safety or Erasing Liberty?
Written by Peter Boykin on September 3, 2025
Florida’s Crosswalk Crackdown: Safety or Erasing Liberty?
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Florida’s Crosswalk Crackdown: Safety or Erasing Liberty?
We’ve gone back and forth on this issue many times. Some people say, “It’s just the law.” But if you read the law and watch how it is being enforced, the real target is revealed. This isn’t about safety. It’s about removing rainbows. Everything else, checkerboards, murals, even school safety crosswalks, is collateral damage.
Governor Ron DeSantis signed off on rules that banned what FDOT calls “social, political, or ideological messages” from crosswalks. On June 30, FDOT issued a memo stating crosswalks and road art “must not include markings or pavement surface art relating to social, political, or ideological messages or images.” This is not about engineering or evidence. It’s about erasing symbols they don’t like.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy echoed this when he said, “Taxpayers expect their dollars to fund safe streets, not rainbow crosswalks. Political banners have no place on public roads.” DeSantis himself declared, “We will not allow our state roads to be commandeered for political purposes.”
But here’s the problem: the rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse wasn’t just decoration. It was installed by the state in 2017 to honor 49 lives lost in the worst mass shooting of its time, and it adhered to national safety standards.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said his community was “devastated to learn that overnight the state painted over the Pulse Memorial crosswalk on Orange Avenue.” He added, “This callous action of hastily removing part of a memorial to what was at the time our nation’s largest mass shooting, without any supporting safety or discussion, is a cruel political act.”
State Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith, the first openly LGBTQ Latino elected to the Florida legislature, was even more direct. He accused FDOT of having “illegally vandalized city property without providing the city of Orlando notice or getting their approval to remove” the rainbow crosswalk. He reminded everyone, “This crosswalk was painted to honor the lives of 49 angels murdered here, AND to keep pedestrians here safe. A disgusting act of betrayal.”
The defenders of this policy argue that rainbows are political. That proves my point. Some Republicans have learned nothing from groups like Log Cabin Republicans and Gays for Trump. Being gay is not a political party. Not every LGBTQ American is a Democrat. Not every gay person is “woke.” We are individuals, not a monolithic voting bloc. Treating rainbow memorials as partisan symbols turns people into targets instead of citizens.
The only politics here is the politics of power. As Ronald Reagan once warned, freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction. We don’t fight for more rights, we fight to preserve the ones we have. And part of that fight is refusing to accept erasure disguised as “safety.”
Crosswalks painted in bright colors do not make streets less safe. In fact, Bloomberg’s Asphalt Art Safety Study shows painted intersections reduce pedestrian and cyclist crashes by nearly 50 percent. The “safety” excuse collapses under the weight of evidence. What remains is a political motivation: removing what they call “woke” and erasing symbols of a community they don’t want to be visible.
This isn’t about whether you support rainbows or not. It’s about whether the government can erase community-funded memorials overnight and then hide behind a rule it created for that very purpose. When you make the rule, sign it into law, enforce it without input, and then point to it as justification, you can’t claim it’s just the law. You are the lawmaker, and the target was clear from the start.
Sources:
Gov. Ron DeSantis Orders Rainbow Crosswalk Honoring 49 Victims Of Pulse Nightclub Mass Shooting To Be Painted Over [uInterview] https://share.newsbreak.com/etd3db74
Source: Associated Press – “Florida cities race to save rainbow crosswalks as the state’s deadlines for removal loom”, which details the state’s directive, including the removal of the Pulse rainbow crosswalk. [apnews.com]
https://apnews.com/article/c4fa6e1ff69ea88e5bd8433bf0ccf62a
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