Berkeley Residents Are Building Benches at Public Bus Stops for Riders

“We’re gonna keep building them so as long as the city doesn’t put down benches, we’re going to do it for them,” Mr. Owens said.

A bus awaits passengers in Los Angeles on March 20, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Some Berkeley, California residents took matters into their own hands after they noticed the need for benches at public bus stops around the city.

Mingwei Samuel, 25, said he began building benches for the bus stops after he saw a photo of an elderly person, who had just gotten surgery, sitting on the curb because the bus stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Way in North Berkeley didn’t have a bench.