KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports that graffiti taggers, whose “work” has been increasingly visible all over town, are now targeting the bayous:
Houston’s growing graffiti problem has spread to the city’s waterways where taggers are now defacing the bayous.
So far, no government agency is taking responsibility for cleaning up the graffiti.
City landscapers work hard to make Houston look good and that’s why they’re bothered when somebody goes to a bayou with a can of spray paint to leave their mark.
“Being out here in this heat, we take pride in our work as far as like trimming around the trees and doing what we’re asked. So when we see stuff like that it’s kinda like disrespectful to our job and our work,” said Charles Thomas, a city mower.
But here’s a strange problem: When taggers have trashed up highway signs, for example, the highway department has taken care of it. But when nature becomes a vandal’s canvas, cleaning it up becomes a bureaucratic mess.
The Harris County Flood Control District cuts the grass and trims the bushes on the bayous, but it does not clean up the graffiti.
In fact, people who’ve tried to tackle this problem say no government agency has accepted responsibility for getting rid of the graffiti along the Bayou City’s bayous.
Looking around town, one could pretty much say that no government agency has accepted responsibility for getting rid of the graffiti anywhere.
Graffiti abatement efforts take money and effort, and Mayor White and his council have had other priorities.
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