built based on a template from the Public Bench Project, at the bus stop in downtown Berkeley. The response — from the city and from bench enthusiasts around the world — was immediate.

By day, Mingwei Samuel works as a software developer. Also by day — together with urbanist and writer Darrell Owens — he builds and installs benches at bus stops around Berkeley and Oakland that have ...

sitting on the ground waiting for a bus in Berkeley as there was no place to sit. East Bay native Mingwei Samuel saw Owens' tweet and went to work. This bench, placed on Martin Luther King Jr ...

It was a scene not uncommon for many straphangers who rely on public transportation to get around in the Bay Area. A man, hobbled by a recent surgery, was seen sprawled out on the curb in downtown ...

When he’s not biking around the Bay Area, he has been helping organize a volunteer mini public works department of sorts, building and installing bus benches around the East Bay. Letters ...