{"id":46087,"date":"2025-11-12T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/46087\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:23:08","slug":"lubbock-must-remove-buddy-holly-art-on-crosswalks-under-new-state-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/46087\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock must remove Buddy Holly art on crosswalks under new state law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; City leaders learned at Tuesday\u2019s Lubbock City Council meeting that the city\u2019s iconic Buddy Holly crosswalks must be removed under a new state law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Texas Department of Transportation provided clarification on Lubbock\u2019s \u201ccreative crosswalks\u201d and notified the city that the Buddy Holly-themed crosswalks will have to be removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City officials previously thought the crosswalks were safe since they were art installations and not considered a political, religious or commercial message. TxDOT notified the city Nov. 5 that this was not the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crosswalks must be removed or a plan for removal must be submitted by Dec. 5. If city leaders delay action, federal and state funding could be withheld from the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; City leaders learned at Tuesday\u2019s Lubbock City Council meeting that the city\u2019s iconic Buddy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[26754,17342,319,66,168,26752,22683,170,169,223,26753,271],"class_list":["post-46087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-buddy-holly","tag-crosswalk-art","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-buddy-holly-crosswalks","tag-lubbock-city-council","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-state-law","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}