An anonymous group called the SF Bay Area Bench Collective installed eight guerrilla benches at Mission District Muni stops in early June. The group had previously installed dozens of benches across the East Bay. The benches were built from sturdy materials with high-quality workmanship and proved popular with Muni riders. San Francisco Public Works cited legal liability concerns and said it would require the group to remove the benches. The group appears to have ignored that order and installed 12 additional benches at bench-less stops in Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, The Mission, and Potrero Hill. A map now shows twenty total renegade benches, and property owners requested removal of two.
It was early June when a group calling themselves the SF Bay Area Bench Collective went and installed eight guerrilla benches of their own at Mission District SF Muni bus stops that did not have benches. (They had already installed dozens of benches in the East Bay.) These benches were made of sturdy materials, with very high-quality workmanship, and the Muni-riding public seemed to love them.
The SFBABC has installed 12 more benches in San Francisco this past weekend, more than doubling its previous count, the group said in a statement to SFist. The first eight benches installed in the city, as well as over 80 benches at East Bay and North Bay bus stops, have been exceedingly well received. This time, the scope of installation covered multiple neighborhoods including Bayview-Hunters Point, Lower Haight, The Mission, and Potrero Hill.
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