CA: Taggers' Paradise or Slum Bait?

July 3, 2018
As you travel San Diego county via trolley, coaster, and bus, graffiti is evident in and around all areas of mass transit.

As you travel San Diego county via trolley, coaster, and bus, graffiti is evident in and around all areas of mass transit.

The Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) and North County Transit District (NCTD) do daily inspections with 24-hour turnaround on graffiti cleanup within their domain.

Rob Schupp with MTS and Sean Loofbourrow, chief of safety and security of NCTD, said both MTS and NCTD regularly communicate with other agencies and municipalities about vandalism outside of their domains.

In 2015, Mayor Kevin Faulconer centralized city of San Diego efforts by implementing one hotline to report public and private property graffiti. Faulconer then stepped it up again with the unveiling of the Get it Done app in 2016.

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