the Data Desk (par)
1,240 — the total number of park benches in this city, counted by this newspaper from the municipality's public records, with a margin of error of no more than twenty.
0 — the number of those marked 「humans only」. In other words, every public bench in this city is, nominally, open to animals.
Actual usage rate — dogs occupy benches for under 1% of the time. It is not that they cannot sit; it is that they do not need to. Dogs sit on the ground; benches are human furniture.
Conclusion: this is not an incident of exclusion but a misunderstanding. The misunderstanding runs in one direction — humans believe we want to sit.
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