The Case of the Disappearing Benches

After six rounds of community meetings, our transit plaza finally got approved… then procurement “saved costs” by deleting the shade structure and most of the benches - apparently people can just lean on planters. What’s your funniest “for the public” feature that got sacrificed to the spreadsheet?

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