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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) — At the Alapai Transit Center, the city installed slats between seats to prevent anyone, including the homeless, from stretching out and sleeping on the bus benches.

But at many other bus stops on Oahu the bus bench is a bed.

“It’s disgusting,” bus rider Catherin Porter said.

She catches the bus regularly. She is fed up with homeless people who block the benches at the bus stops she uses.

“Bus riders tired of homeless sleeping on benches” — May 8, 2014
Hawaii News Now

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