{"id":44967,"date":"2025-07-29T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44967\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:35:07","slug":"las-2nd-street-tunnel-covered-with-graffiti-hours-after-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44967\/","title":{"rendered":"LA&#8217;s 2nd Street tunnel covered with graffiti hours after cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Less than a day after crews painted over the extensive graffiti covering the inside of the 2nd Street Tunnel in downtown Los Angeles, vandals had its walls covered in graffiti again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A video posted on Instagram shows taggers spray painting the walls of the notorious tunnel located between Figueroa and Hill Streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;What had been a clean slate at noon became by midnight a living gallery of street expression, filled with burners, rollers, and painted signatures from L.A.&#8217;s most well known vandals,&#8221; the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMeymCTuSCd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram post<\/a> by @gafftv reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Our ABC7 photojournalist went into the tunnel Monday night, getting a unique view of how the graffiti has grown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both sides of the tunnel are now covered with colorful graffiti from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Eyewitness News reached out to the mayor&#8217;s office and the Bureau of Street Services for comment, but has not heard back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This comes after <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/downtown-la-high-rise-vandalized-graffitied-building-oceanwide-plaza\/14396860\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taggers took over the towers<\/a> at Oceanwide Plaza, also in downtown L.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">More than a year later, the graffiti has still not been removed.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Less than a day after crews painted over the extensive graffiti covering the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[35662,228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-44967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-35662","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}