Rainbow crosswalk: Was it worth the price tag? ($196,000)

No it's not. There are thousands of crosswalks painted in many different ways. There were 6 in Houston painted with midtown colors. Nobody cared enough to seven find out how much it costs

Or if the city had painted it with the Atlanta Braves colors nobody would care.

See, it's all about the sexuality. It's about what it represents. Cities waste gobs of money. Look at the stadiums in that City.

nobody bothered to find out how much. Because painting a crosswalk with the district colors doesn't bother anybody.

No it doesn't. You cried about sexuality and percentages in this post it has nothing to do with the cost.

 

Ok, show me one other city that spent 200K on one crosswalk? Anything will do.

It's about sexuality, because the whole idea of the painting represents 3% of the population.
Yes, there are thousands of painted crosswalks, show me ONE that cost this much. I'll wait.

Stop making everyone out to be homophobic. You're only using that as an excuse to justify a huge price tag for a freakin' crosswalk.

 

See, I has everything to do with what it stands for and Nothing to stop with cost.

If it was a star of David in a Jewish part of town, we wouldn't even be talking about it.

No they don't. I'll prove it. How much money did Huston pay painting their crosswalks? Do you even know? You weren't even aware they did because nobody cares. Because no activists bothered to find out.

Stop making it so blatantly obvious.

By people like me? Are you kidding? I haven't called anybody homophobic.

I don't have a problem with people who think homosexuality is wrong.

If anything I want people not too be bothered by being called such names. I think staying hushed about something because some big bad meanie will call you a name is profound cowardice.

When did people become so Lily livered?

Cities waste money much more on many things. Odd this is the one thing that sticks in your craw.

 

My argument is the information isn't even available because nobody cares.

Thus its not about cost. I knew that.

No you show me the average cost of decorative crosswalks since its your claim that in Atlanta it's above average.

Disagreement with the celebration of homosexuality doesn't make someone homophobic.

I don't know that it's a huge price tag, I don't know the average cost of decorating a crosswalk in such a way.

 

We do plenty.

 

Sometimes it's about money. It depends on what people view as a good use of money. My city spent 250K on a giant blue ring that caused a massive uproar simply because most saw it as a waste of money on what they percieved as 'crappy art'. Don't forget about the piss-christ controversy.

 

The person I was responding to kept referencing how it represents 3% of the population.

Forget the fact that likely in this district it is a bigger percentage.

We have a district in Houston called the Gallareia.

There is an intersection of two streets called Westheimer and Sage. Above that intersection there is this big decorative stainless steel hoop about 50% the size of the intersection suspended above it complete with lit Road names. Going down sage there are these tubular stainless steel archways that go over the road and connect past the sidewalks to concrete. There are fancy decorative street lights. That was 11 million dollars. 11 million is way more than 200k. I haven't seen a thread about that.

Maybe because it has nothing to do with homosexuality.

 

modern art is garbage.

 

Most likely. I haven't read the thread since I posted so I didn't have the required context for your post.

I disagree. There is a lot of Art that is amazing stuff. But a lot of people like to try and 'push boundries' and make crap they call 'art'. Unfortunately, it's a subjective topic. One mans garbage is another mans art, and vice versa.

 

You're pretending that's not a valid argument. It represents a tiny percentage of the population. So spending that amount of money seems ridiculous. I don't care if people are gay or not, you keep acting as if that's the objection and I"m sure you'll continue with that. If the city spent $196K on painting 3 street lights pink for breast cancer awareness, I would say that same thing. A small job like this should not cost $196K no matter how you spin it. The main reason there is an article about his is due to the high price tag for colored crosswalks. No one made a stink in Houston because it wasn't so expensive.

Would you spend half a million for someone to come paint your master bedroom? How about 2 million for a new roof? I would mow and trim the lawn for a small $75K.

So go ahead and tell me it's about it being about the gay population and not the money. Keep repeating it until people start to ignore you.

 

Would you take issue with a star of david painted in a crosswalk in a jewish part of townm

Are you kidding? Do you know how much money cities waste?

It is. See the first bit of this post i responded to.

You keep whining about "representing a tiny percentage of the population" that has **** to do with cost. You have made that reference in at least 3 posts.

You don't seem to be whining about any other city project. It isn't me spinning it bud.

So how much did it cost in Houston?

Oh so you're an expert on how much it costs to paint crosswalks? Go ahead and tell me how much it does cost.

You keep repeating that just look at the first bit of this post I responded to. You were whining about percentage of population.

Would it be a problem if they spent 200k painting them to have the Atlanta braves logo or a city mascot painted on them?

And if you're such an expert on what this should cost show me jobs where they painted similar crosswalks with a smaller price.

 

I'm against ALL wasteful spending, ALL of it. This thread is about a rainbow crosswalk so that's what we are discussing but I'm against ALL wasteful spending. Are you clear now? And yes, if they spent $196K to paint a star of david, I'd be against that too. Saying that cities waste money on other things doesn't justify this.

 

Do you know how much money cities spend on stadiums?

Than why did you repeatedly whine about the percentages of population? That has absolutely nothing to do with cost.

Again sports stadiums cost billions.

 

Sports stadiums also bring in lots of money. Rainbow sidewalks do not. It is to appease a small % of the population and your defense shows no one better dare question it.

I get that you're gay and you will defend rainbow crosswalks till your head turns blue, but this wasteful spending for a few of you needs to be put to more useful things AND some checks and balances to how much certain things are costing needs to happen too. It's the taxpayers right to questions the cost of things, but if you don't think so, I have a 1991 Geo Metro to sell you for only $65K.

 

They don't really. The owner of the team pockets a huge percent of it including all of the naming rights income a vast majority of the concessions. once I learned how shitty of a deal it is for the city I not only will always vote against them but I'll also never visit one again.

Stadiums don't either. You should look into that. It disgusted me.

What difference does this make?

Defense? Not sure what you're talking about. I never defended it.

I'm still not defending it.

It's just seems odd that people have picked this really obscure thing out of many painted crosswalks to flip out about.

I can't think of any other reason than the fact that it's a rainbow.

 

Of course you can't, cause it could never be the price tag of $196,000 for the colored crosswalks. It must be that everyone is against the gay people.

The article was written due to the price tag, but playing the victim is so much easier.

 

Unless an old water main breaks and we all know that never happens I say sarcastically.

 

Fundamentally trying to change America to ghey.

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You habe repeatedly made this claim. And cities are profoundly wasteful with money. I don't know that this is an exorbitant amount of money. You haven't presented an average for this job so you don't know either.

Well you couldn't tell me how much the crosswalks in Houston cost. You had no idea they were even there. They could have paid less they could have paid more. Have you even tried?

We wouldn't even bee talking about thus of it was any other simbol.

I don't buy it. They never mention whay the average cost is to do this kind of work and how many articles were written about other government waste by this author?

 

Again, feed the poor it's more important than a rainbow crosswalk. You don't know me at all yet you presume to know what I'm thinking. I have a gay niece that I love dearly and has zilch to do with gays or "a city being okay with gay people".

 

Others voice their opinions. Why do people cry about other people's opinions being thrown in their faces? They didn't paint your drive way our your front door.

 

No charities should feed the poor not cities. Bonds should fund art on city property, not taxes.

I didn't say anything about you that is have to habe any personal information to say. I don't recall saying anything about you at all.

It has everything to do with that. The O.P. Is obsessed with homosexuality. Just look at the number of threads he started.

If it wasn't about the fact that this is a rainbow the O.P. would have never posted it. And you and I would not be talking about it.

 

This OP isn't about crosswalks in Houston.

I have stated more than once that yes, I would be discussing this if it was other symbols, but you continue to ignore that and continue with your "everyone is against the gay people" victim card.

 

You said it was too much. Based on what?

No you wouldn't. You never posted anything about it before. The O.P. Is utterly obsessed with homosexuality. You wouldn't be discussing this at all because you never have before.

I have given you multiple opportunities to discuss other crosswalks. You whine about them not being the topic.

 

How many could be fed by republican tax cuts?