About Us
The Bench Collective is decentralized collaboration of local residents who
build, install, and maintain much-needed benches, mainly at bus stops. If
you want to help maintain a bench please adopt it!
If you would like to build more benches, please join us!
If a bench has a problem, please report it!
Bench Map
Skip after map Skip before map The SFBABC (San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective) is looking to raise fu… Darya Yurkevich needs your support for Support Local Artists: Beautify SF Benches A rogue Bay Area group is making waves by making benches in San Francisco. Here's what we know. To city officials who have to monitor, clean and possibly remove the guerrilla benches, they are a source of headaches. And potential legal fallout. The benches are screwed right into the concrete on city streets. Who are the people behind them? And is this legal? The only clue is this website leading us to the San Francisco Bench Collective. Call them what you like; pop-up benches, DIY benches, guerrilla benches. The unpermitted wooden seats, first seen at East Bay bus stops, have now made their way into San Francisco’s Mission District, drawing mixed reactions from residents and city officials. A month after a group of transit activists installed “guerilla benches” at SF bus stops that had no benches, the city’s Public Works Department says they will demand that these activists remove the unauthorized benches. See all news