{"id":54557,"date":"2025-11-18T13:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54557\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:18:31","slug":"lubbock-to-remove-buddy-holly-crosswalk-under-abbott-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54557\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock to remove Buddy Holly crosswalk under Abbott order"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lubbock city officials said this past week that they would comply with the new directive and remove a\u00a0crosswalk installed in 2020 near the Buddy Holly Center, a downtown museum with exhibits honoring the rock-and-roll legend and Lubbock\u2019s most famous native son, according to an article by the Associated Press<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

City officials said they believed the new directive was meant for political messaging. However, with the wording of current instructions given by\u00a0TxDOT, the city would need to comply with the removal of the artwork, which depicts\u00a0Buddy Holly’s iconic glasses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such a tasteful cross section and people like it. But what do you do?\u201d City Council Member Christy Martinez-Garcia told AP reporters.<\/p>\n

Since Abbott’s directive\u00a0in early October, a couple of cities across the state have agreed to erase their artwork\u00a0\u2014 despite public outcry \u2014 stating that the loss of funding for roads was a greater threat.<\/p>\n

In Houston, city officials received backlash over the removal of a rainbow crosswalk at the intersection of Taft and Westhiemer, which was installed to honor\u00a0Michael Alexander Hill, a 21-year-old waiter\u00a0killed in a hit-and run at the intersection in 2017<\/a>. After the art was removed at the crosswalk on Oct. 20, Mayor John Whitmire raised the possibility of adding artwork to private property instead of putting city funding at risk.<\/p>\n

Abbott’s directive\u00a0is part of a wider push by the Trump Administration and Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lubbock city officials said this past week that they would comply with the new directive and remove a\u00a0crosswalk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-54557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54557","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=54557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}