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Given that NYC is currently embarking on an ambitious public toilet plan, this news from the Pacific Northwest is appropriate: After spending millions on installing self-cleaning, unisex high-tech public toilets in 2004, Seattle officials have decided to auction them off on eBay. Apparently the toilets attracted crime ("drug users and prostitutes") and became an embarrassing topic. There are no bids on the toilets so far, but if you have $89,000 and the right plumbing set up, you could snatch one up!
Seattle's Public Toilets' Crappy Ending
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Seattle has an out-of-control homeless problem. The moderate climate and permissive atmosphere there make it a haven for people with serious problems who never move on.
On top of that they have to eat all the costs because of a anti-advertising revenue mindset there. That doesn't make sense at all.
Don't hold your urine waiting for NYC to install public toilets. That seems to be a project beyond the Big Crapper's capabilities.
I used one of our self-cleaning public toilets this past weekend while waiting for my burger at Shake Shack. It was gross.
Becuase the bathroom cleans itself after each use, the toilet is completely wet when you use it (as is the floor of the bathroom, like wading throuhg a puddle). If you put the protective liner down, it just sticks to the toilet.
Have Charmin, Lysol, or Kohler run all the public and semi-public restrooms and let them do all the product placement they'd like. Like what Charmin did at Times Square:
http://gothamist.com/2006/11/20/charmins_times.php
Ya can't trust government to keep it spic and span, only a private firm who's reputation is at stake.
NYC already has a ton of public restrooms. We just call them Starbucks.
Why would I want to spend $89,000 to buy something druggies used hide out in to shoot up, hookers used to turn tricks, a thousands of random strangers used to piss & shit in? Besides, it wouldn't fit in my living room.
STARBUCKS is my street toilet.
I third the "i-take-rogue-dumps-in-starbucks" comments.
This stuff will never work in America. Starbucks will just have to keep ordering gloves and spray bottles.