meep_launcherThis bench at the train stop has nice clean boards. This is at the LaSalle/ Van Buren stop in Chicago.
But it has a middle separator, perfect example of hostile architecture. For the uninitiated: the armrest in the middle’s only function is to stop people lying on the bench. Homeless people can’t sleep here, we finally solved the problem of homelessness, hurray!
Removing it and having a homeless person sleep on it ALSO does not solve homelessness.
But it does solve sleeping on the wet ground