Take note of how a lot of places removed seating essential to elderly and disabled people during the peak pandemic period when we still thought transmission via surfaces was likely and then just never returned them and probably never will.
A good samaritan in our neighborhood weather-proofed some old church pews and secured them where the benches our city took away used to be.
Love the ppl in the notes like, “but what if you sit on it and damage it? 🥺” Hydrants are cast iron. Cast iron has more compressive strength than steel. And they’re built to contain 40-100 psi. When was the last time you sitting down damaged an unreinforced steel bench like these?
And you think someone sitting on a thick cast iron structure is gonna hurt it?
And no, the ground is not accessible seating. You really gonna tell a 90-yr-old person to just sit on the ground? How tf you think they’re getting down and back up without falling? How about a person with a cane? Someone who’s pregnant? Now that there are no benches bc 😱 a homeless person might use them and be visible 😱 what do you expect those ppl to do? Also stop existing?
