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The same bench, framed closer to the camera, with additional cracks visible on some of the slats

After a week in the rain and sun (worst possible conditions) we can see some checking (small cracks) on the plain sawn faces (zoom in). This is fine, as long as the wood doesn't eventually split.

a 4ft dudersadt bench made of a pale wood with a unsually shimmery grain pattern (eucalyptus globus). In the background: a similar dark brown bench (stained redwood), a cone, and some tools

Built a bench of out reclaimed eucalyptus wood milled by bayarearedwood.com - hard and heavy as hell (weighs more than an 8ft fir bench). Wet with no finish. Eucalyptus lumber gets a lot of hate - maybe undeserved? We will see how this bench ages

Any Berkeley / Oakland area artists interested in painting some benches? dm me.

Two people are shoveling a sidewalk along a busy street. The mounds of snow are a couple feet high.

A group shot of eighteen people smiling while sitting on three benches or standing behind them.

A photo of three identical wood benches posed in a row in front of an industrial type space.

A group of people working on constructing a bench together. The pieces and parts are laid out on a red rug. There are people talking in the background.

This year, in honor of Transit Equity Day and Rosa Parks, Transit Columbus and Strong Towns Columbus volunteers cleared bus stops and sidewalks around the city to provide dignity for riders. We built benches to increase accessibility and enable people to rest safely as they journey around Columbus.

Two people lean against large snow piles and smile at the camera. They are on a sidewalk that has been recently shoveled and one is holding a shovel.

Two people measure pieces of wood together on a table.

A lone wood bench sits amongst a cleared patch in a field of snow. There is a fence and a parking lot behind it.

Two people work together to assemble a bench.

In total, twenty-nine people worked together to shovel nine bus stops, and build three benches.

Waymo exec says remote assistance operators are in US and also in Philippines. Markey says that's unacceptable, a national & cyber security risk. And it takes jobs away from American drivers to outsource overseas. "Transatlantic backseat driver is downright dangerous in our country" Markey says.

if the bench is just a solid color, it’s far easier, cheaper, and quicker to buff the graffiti with amother coat of paint. If benches have art on them that needs to be protected, then that is where an anti graffiti coating make sense

Thank you to everyone who came out for the #AlexPretti memorial ride in Oakland today. It was a huge turnout, even more than shown here at Lake Merritt, as some people peeled off since the start at Rockridge BART. @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @ebbp.bsky.social

Your friendly reminder that you should NOT support Gavin for president, in no small part bc the $750M emergency *loan* he agreed to became $590M months later. Gavin doesn’t really care about transit, at best

The campaign to save Bay Area transit kicks off this Friday! Join events happening across the region as we start collecting the 200k signatures needed to get this initiative on the November ballot.

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Weeknotes, 2026W02: Benches For the past year I’ve been helping build bus stop benches. I joined a two year Bay Area project that has built and installed over 100…

SFBABC just published a 40-pager on how we crank out 10 guerilla bus stop benches in a weekend. I’m proud to have helped write, edit, and photograph this alongside @carterlavin.bsky.social, @mingweisamuel.bsky.social, & others. Get the doc sfbabc.org/join or read my post:

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Ah yes scrambling to comply after only TWELVE YEARS to come into compliance 😂

I've been feeling blue about the world, so to cheer me up, my friend and I did some DIY benching. There are new & improved community AC Transit bus benches at:
6 : Telegraph & Wesbter @ Whole Foods
6 : Telegraph & Woolsey @ Smokehouse
12 : MLK & University @ Trader Joes
27 : Ashby & Shattuck

Shame they didn’t build enough for it to be a graffiti canvas

"Why does Sonic need a car?" motherfucker why do YOU? You can run everywhere too if you want to but here you are. Maybe address north american urban design so we can get some 15 minute cities, and quality public transit options.

Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ... 423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
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Come through this Sunday! We'll be joined by @barnalighosh.bsky.social, @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social, @alfredtwu.com, @mingweisamuel.bsky.social, @brandonsedai.bsky.social, and @tsch.uy.

A bench created during a campaign event for Eric is in painter park near the skate park. Laura’s bike is leaning against it

Spotted my first @ehbforbet.bsky.social bench in the wild (at Painter Park).

And it’s in a spot that has been in dire need of public seating for a very long time.

Thank you, @locallhuman.bsky.social & @ehbforbet.bsky.social !

California Prop 50 ballots are starting to arrive in voters' mailboxes. Don't delay, vote today!
#YesOnProp50

Mark your calendars‼️ On Saturday, 9/27 we're hosting our first official campaign event‼️

In partnership with the Minneapolis Public Seating Authority, we will assemble community benches for use in neighborhoods across the city. Food, drinks, and good times aplenty!
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Muni sign for the 22 and N Judah Owl - official

Muni sign for the 22 and N Judah Owl - Safe Street Rebel with munisign.org

We're happy to see an official Muni sign at Church/Duboce replace our community-installed one after 3 years! They even reused our mounting hardware 🥺
Make your own sign at munisign.org/

Not yet, but next will be

I mean the DMV revoked their license. CPUC only regulates the passenger-carrying aspect of [cars] which sorta just ended up happening to include AVs

YES 😂 there are few regulatory agencies more captured than the CPUC, in all of their fields

‘Guerilla Bench’ Activists Back At It, Install 12 More Lovely But Unauthorized Benches at Muni Stops The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters…

The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Potrero Hill. sfist.com/2025/08/22/g...

When a Waymo blows past a stop sign or illegally stops in a red zone, by design, there is no driver present to take responsibility. But what happens when a self-driving vehicle gets pulled over in Los Angeles?

By @marinamasako.bsky.social

Full story: lataco.com/waymo-traffi...

The East Bay just got some good, and much-needed, transit news OPINION: “Good news is in short supply. But on Sunday, AC Transit is launching its new Realign bus network — and that’s something to celebrate,” Evan Tschuy writes.

I wrote an op ed for the Chronicle about how important AC Transit's new redwoods service is, with the agency taking a bet on transit as a way of life, not just a commuting tool:

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Engardio has always been a hack trying find the right empty words to say to win, and now that he finally has he immediately falls on his face, lol.

IDEA: on one-way streets, let's make the sidewalks one-way too! To walk in the other direction, you'd first travel one block perpendicularly, to the next street over.

Or maybe that would be ridiculous and we shouldn't do bike lanes that way either? Hard to say