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How do you feel about GRAFFITI on trains?

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Simply put graffiti is vandalism and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Most graffiti artists do their work under the cover of night so any deterrment plans must operate in these hours. At DART we have the policy of the first operator of the day on a line, be it bus or rail, who sees the "art work" on DART property to radio in and it will be gone before the end of the day. If you remove the forum for the "artists" they soon will direct their talents elsewhere. Hopfullyl to painting for Habitat for Humanity. One only has to look at British Rail and London Transit who apparently do not have a program of removal of graffiti from stationary facilities. It is almost to the point in the old country that is is beyond hope of ever removing the "artwork". DART had a problem with a highway overpass being tagged weekly. The bridge is near a high school and opposing teams would paint their school colors on the bridge before a football game. The prior user of the ROW, the Katy, tolerated this painting. After all this is one less bridge that they must paint. We were unhappy with the tagging of our new concrete light rail bridge. Talking to a school assembly was useless as was fencing. I had our Transit Police hide out one night near the bridge. It only took one night to catch a few "artists in rersidence". We charged them with all the costs of removing any artwork we found on the Garland line. which ran to a few thousand dollars. Turns out the kids who were doing it were from prominant families in town. When their fathers had to write a check for a few thousand dollars the kids really caught h - - - . The word soon spread and our problem has ended at this location. Cleaning paint from concrete is not easy. *** Watkins "Retired" DART board member
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