Three pedestrian traffic lights in Linz, Austria’s third largest city, have been removed by Austria’s new traffic official. The lights were installed earlier this year to promote gay rights.

“Traffic lights are for traffic and should not be misused to impart advice on how to live your life,” Markus Hein from the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) was quoted as saying.

Instead of the usual stick man, the special lights at pedestrian crossings show two figures: either a man or a woman, two men o...