Austria: Linz scraps gay pedestrian crossing lights

BBC News ^ | December 7, 2015

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The Austrian city of Linz has scrapped its gay-themed pedestrian crossing lights, which were adopted earlier this year with the aim of promoting tolerance.

The red and green signals, depicting same-sex couples holding hands, were first introduced in Vienna to coincide with the the Eurovision Song Contest in May. Their popularity meant Salzburg and Linz later followed suit. But while the signals have become a permanent feature in the capital, they've now been removed from the streets of Linz, the Kurier website reports.

"Traffic lights are for traffic and should not be misused to impart advice on how to live your life," says councillor Markus Hein of the right-wing Freedom Party, who is responsible for traffic issues. Mr Hein, who opposed the initiative from the start, says that gay rights are already advanced, making the lights "completely unnecessary".

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[Sgt_Schultze]

WTF is wrong with these extremist nuts?

[PROCON]

LOL, Liberalism has no national borders, LOL!

[bgill]

Buy stock in hand baskets.

[Paladin2]

Sound like a targeting opportunity for some.

[Lx]

I wonder what Linz most famous resident would think?

[Paladin2]

Es war ein Plummer von Linz,

Er schlaft mit eine Madchen von Blintz...

Ja, Ja sagt der Plummer. I bin.

[ConservativeMind]

I’m curious how they were planning on implementing the bestiality and pedophile themes for the subsequent two years.

[shibumi]

You got yer three basic lights:

WALK

DON'T WALK

~*SASHAY WITH STYLE*~

[livius]

LOL! Just imagining the “sashay with style”...on the other hand, I’d prefer not to think about the bestiality light.

What is the matter with these people? Liberals are so nuts they can’t even be parodied.

[shibumi]

In lieu of "Sashay" I suppose you could have one that says -

"Mince Along!"

[Trillian]

There isn’t enough room on a traffic light to truthfully depict how many ‘partners’ these mental cases have. I can’t imagine how dumb the person who thought of this is to put it on traffic lights.

[ohioman]

Why do you ask? Would you be OK with having Homo crossing signs in your city?

BTW - The infamous resident from Linz had many of these mentally unstable homos leading his Brownshirts.

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Anything to not acknowledge the Islamists in their midst want to kill them by the bushel.

[wbill]

Only liberals would equate crossing a street with a political statement. Truly, liberalism is a mental disease.

[FredZarguna]

The problem is, traffic lights just don't have enough pixels. Once the limited graphics capability of signals is properly repudiated as an oppressive limitation of the whitecisheteropatriarchy you'll see walk signs reflecting the proper way to cross the street, as demonstrated on the official television outlet of the LGBTQQ gayschtupo:

[Verginius Rufus]

Hitler’s home town is becoming progressive.

[Salamander]

What a swishy post.

[Salamander]

Hope he’s wearing a diaper.

[dfwgator]

I wonder what Linz most famous resident would think?

"I'm as happy as a little girl."