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Damn right they're a safety issue.
I was crossing one the other week. Boom. Gay. Just like that. Had to get a divorce and everything.
Sorry for your loss. I become gay but my partner became trans, so it still worked out.
What's a real "safety issue" is this nazi fucking regime.
Lol I'm sure this is about safety and not a guy trying to feed a bunch of haters red meat so they don't look at the death rates in texas hospitals
I wish my town had a gay cross walk, so then there would be more gay people. Rainbows make people gay and gay people throw great parties and have nice communities. I need that shit in my town.
Be the gay you need. Once you get the gay it will spread and make more people get gay. Gay the fuck out of the place. Gay that mother fucking town up!
This is just embarrassing.
If rainbow sidewalks were actually unsafe, the engineers would know it already (because that's their fucking job) and wouldn't need a goddamned politician to tell them.
That's 100% proof by itself (as if we needed any more) that Abbott is a bigot and a liar.
Fascists are anti intellectual after all.
They technically are unsafe. They screw with Seeing Eye Dogs. That being said, it's just as easy to hang Pride Flags at cross walks.
RNIB Scotland Director, James Adams, said: “Traditional black and white pedestrian crossings offer high contrast, which is essential for people with low vision to detect and cross roads safely. Designs and colours which are not consistent with traditional designs could cause confusion to people with sight loss, and to guide dogs which are trained to stop at crossings.
You'll also have to train dogs to recognize both approaches because the starting color will be different.
They technically are unsafe. They screw with Seeing Eye Dogs.
I think this might be true. Do you know of any published studies on this?
I'll see if I can find a study, but advocates for the blind have talked about it.
Oh the colorblind seeing eye dogs? 🤔
I don’t want to dispute this, because it’s just provably true, but I have never been able to figure out why my dog’s favorite color was red. It was definitely 100% his favorite color, even when there were balls that looked identical in every other way except were green, which should have appeared like pretty much the same color to him. And it wasn’t just a single favorite ball. He preferred red for several different toys that came in packs of multiple identical units except for color.