About 75% of Kansas City bus stops don't have anywhere to sit while you wait, and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority keeps removing benches despite complaints from riders. Sunrise Movement KC is taking things into their own hands, but their makeshift seats may be removed as quickly as they're assembled.

There aren’t many benches at bus stops around the Kansas City metro. At most stops, riders have to wait for their bus between 15 minutes to an hour in the rain, heat, snow or frigid cold with no place to sit.

Sunrise Movement KC, a climate activist group, is trying to change that. The group has been placing DIY benches at bus stops around the metro. Jacob Antolini, an organizer with Sunrise, said the group has installed more than 20 benches since it started the effort last

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