A Los Angeles sign-removal ceremony has made a two-year U-turn back into the feed.
On TikTok, a clip circulating in September 2026 shows city officials celebrating the removal of “No U-turn” signs in Silver Lake. Many recent comments treat the decision as current, with viewers asking whether the clip is satire, warning that the change could make traffic less safe, and wondering how a U-turn sign could target gay people.
The ceremony took place June 10, 2024. Councilmembers Nithya Raman and Hugo Soto-Martínez joined community members outside the AT Center, an LGBTQ+ recovery and wellness center at Griffith Park Boulevard and Fernwood Avenue, as the final two overnight U-turn signs on that stretch came down.
Beneath the familiar red symbols, placards restricted U-turns from midnight to 6 a.m. City officials linked that six-hour schedule to an anti-cruising campaign begun in 1997. Many reactions leave out the old dateline and the narrow enforcement history that made these particular signs controversial.
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NBC Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Times covered the removal in June 2024.
The Midnight Plate
The smaller plate beneath each symbol said “Midnight to 6 AM.” Raman’s District 4 office said Los Angeles had installed overnight U-turn restrictions and “No Cruising” signs in neighborhoods where LGBTQ+ residents lived, explicitly targeting gay men looking for partners.
LAist reported that police used the signs to arrest people who made U-turns on Griffith Park Boulevard between midnight and 6 a.m. The Times described the municipal rule as restricting a driver from passing through the same area twice within six hours during that overnight window.
Most of Silver Lake’s explicit no-cruising signs came down after a neighborhood council vote in 2011. Nine overnight U-turn signs remained, and the final two at Griffith Park Boulevard and Fernwood Avenue stayed until 2024.
A local gay bar owner told the Times that late-night radios and rowdiness were part of the neighborhood conflict, while many queer people drove or gathered there because they had few places where they could do so openly.
The Other Rules
A later Los Angeles committee report said the city’s cruising code was no longer enforceable and expressly preserved enforcement of other laws protecting public safety and orderly traffic.
California AB 436 took effect Jan. 1, 2024, prohibiting local governments from regulating cruising. The report recommended repealing Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 80.36.10 and removing signs tied to it.
Los Angeles kept processing a formal repeal after the Silver Lake ceremony. The City Clerk’s file was last changed May 27, 2026, and remained pending in the Public Safety and Transportation committees. When the clip resurfaced on TikTok that September, the signs shown in it had been gone for more than two years.