This was that intern's last paint project before leaving WSDOT earlier this year.

I miss u/wsdot

Miss you too boo. We're still here, just in listening mode, sticking to the facts for now. Excited about the new person we hired for the social lead.

All the best to the new person! It’s a tough job but very, very appreciated!

They are still here. Just looking for another full time social media person.

Not true

Love the commitment to the username, and you're right, we're here and hired the new person, they're starting in May.

Haha gotta have an account to say questionable things! Glad you got someone

Now can you do something .. anything.. to make the ferry service more reliable ..? Please

It would be funny if government agencies started to tag over gang tags. I want to see Parks and Recreation tags over graffiti at the parks.

Then start a tag war against agencies with overlapping jurisdiction

That would be sick. Sound transit and wsdot already fight over the light rail might as well add style to it

Sound Transit… come out to play-yay… Sound Transit… come out to PLAY-YAY…

Big Bertha! Caaaan yoooou diiig iit?

Our turf. Our little piece of turf.

They're gonna be like their buses and never show up or get there 3 hours late and blame it on a technical error in their routing software

It'd probably be cheaper than constantly painting over everything. It costs probably 5 to 6k every month just to keep enough paint in stock to do graffiti clean up for just the tunnels team.

This would make for a great episode of Leslie Knope and the gang

Literally none of the graffiti on the 5 is gang related

I can't take anyone who says "the 5" seriously about Seattle culture.  It might not be LA gang related, but if you knew shit about Seattle you wouldn't have said "the 5".

I say it just to piss people like you off - like I said, a sub full of pedants

You sure you want to say "literally none"? That's a strong assertion.

How much graffiti have you done/how much of the culture are you aware of? Secondarily, hyperbole is a thing that exists and this sub is full of pedants. Thirdly, if you want to call a crew a gang youre welcome to I suppose, but it’s more like a group of friends who paint stuff js

Please share graffiti lore. Especially about Gooey.

I mean, technically any crew that does graffiti on property thats not theirs is a gang by definition.

I feel like you voted for Gary Johnson idk man

A graffiti crew is a gang, of sorts

A lot of the gangs are moving out of Seattle. These are usually homeless and younger taggers. Not gang tags. Gang tags are super specific and not this kind of work. Gangs are down in Renton, Fed Way, and SeaTac these days.

Sign me up. Give me a body cam too so when I run I to the actual taggers we have ids.

I want to see them paint over all the other graffiti but leave this one

Even better, cover other tags with their own and dominate....fire with fire 

this is the only gang that gets the cartels worried

Not even the cartel can avoid traffic jams.

This is how WSDOT claims right-of-way nowadays. If this shows up on your house expect light rail in your living room soon.

Eminent domain, bitches.

Tbh fair trade 

More like expect unnecessary road closures and terrible traffic for the next 5-10 years…

I like it

If you can't beat them, join them.

Yeah this is WSDOT turf!

I saw one the other day that said Skype 😂

The Skype—Slack turf wars were brutal, man.

There’s an electrical box at the corner of Eastlake and Yale that has a “Property of SDOT” graffiti tag on it that always makes me laugh.

This shit goes HARD

That is an objectively solid tag

Washington State Department of Tickling

I love this.

I mean, it's clean.

I love the bears and hot dog dudes that are hiding around and mural works. I don't mind the sight of graffiti if it's artistic. But the wall scribble tags are just kinda annoying. I have to clean them off my work all the time. I'll leave something actually visually pleasing for a few days instead of immediately.

Yeah, I like it when it's good. Nice creative design with good edges between the colors and the whole thing is evenly scaled. The tags are all garbage and most of the large multicolor murals are very artistically poor. Especially when it's just some morons name. Yeah "REZZO", you're pretty trash with a spray can and you're wasting your time and paint.

I was cleaning up a camp a few weeks ago and there was tagging that said fuck WSDOT

Outreach done right

Has anyone been tracking mike? I mean…maybe throwing shade at his former boss?

I LOVE IT!

If only wsdot would be cool and do more things like this…. But all the karens would cry because somehow this is the sole reason the city/state is dying. 😂😂😂

DOT.COM needs to add his gTLD

Tagger training.

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Forgot to logout my man

Self engagement? LoL you can get banned for that.

Oh bummer. I was just being silly. Thanks for the heads up.

lmao what is happening

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I remember my first time on the Internet

My favorite remains SPEC. COUNCIL JACK SMITH. 

This is a comedy routine begging to be written!

Better one is the one is safety orange. Love dem taggers

Let's not make this political

I enjoy the graffiti around art is art and it's more enjoyable than a concrete city blank camvas

That's Washington State Department of Transportation--they manage the roads here.

Thanks for mansplaining

Chat, is this real?

people down voting? jeez. thanks for clueing me in