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Are city cabbies making "sun tea" in their vehicles? Of the 44,000 TLC drivers on the streets, most working 12 hour days, you can imagine how difficult it is for them to find a place they can relieve themselves. So many allegedly "resort to going in the street or peeing in bottles stowed under their seats."
The problem is a big one for the drivers, and amNewYork reports that their "hunt for a toilet is getting harder as new bike lanes and MUNI meters make it harder to jump out without getting ticketed." There are 55 relief stands in the city, where drivers are able to park for an hour — but that number goes down with construction projects popping up; even the Times Square pedestrian plaza took two away.
The city is allegedly creating new stands, and a GPS device detecting public bathrooms could be ready in, oh, two years or so. But until then, others are trying to help out where they can. After receiving workers comp claims for kidney problems, one taxi garage owner in Brooklyn opened his doors to all drivers.
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i did not want to know this... :/
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Cabbies have been pissing into plastic bottles and chucking them out the window as long as I can remember.
Seriously, I've seen bottles with pee throughout the gutters forever.
Not only that, but I've heard them referred to as "Gutterade".
so have the carriage drivers.
The "hunt for a toilet is getting harder as new bike lanes and MUNI meters make it harder to jump out without getting ticketed."
I guess they're extremely motivated to never pay for parking.
Sounds like a job for the Stadium Pal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBdymtyXt8Y
Well good for you for recycling yesterday's AMNY cover story.
Yeah, right. Blame the bike lanes. The NYPD is just *constantly* ticketing people who park in the bike lanes.
Most creative excuse a cabbie ever gave me for not wanting to take me over the Williamsburg Bridge.
"I need to take a dump, I cannot take you to Brooklyn!"
**insert hatian accent**
Drove half a block down Delancey and picked up another fare, presumably going to the Upper East Side.
Cab drivers are a scummy bunch (minus a few outliers)
First off they need George Costanza's iToilet!
Last week I was relieved, no pun intended, to see a cab available down the block and ran to catch him before he took off - just then I saw him sealing his pee bottle. Rather than take him and my impending pee stained change, I waited for another cab to come along.
I would gladly pay for European-style public restrooms. Why hasn't the city explored this for revenue? It would make more sense to build regular multiple stall bathrooms with attendants than the individual self-cleaning ones.
I just returned from Amsterdam where there are public toilets everywhere and they are clean. They always had toilet paper. I never walked in on an un-flushed toilet or pee on the seat. They did not smell. The stall doors go up almost to the ceiling and about 2 inches from the floor. There is soap and paper towels, and on one occasion, there was even this wicked Dyson Air Hand Dryer that dried my hands in one short burst of air. The catch? I had to pay. Anywhere between 20 - 50 cents. Let me tell you, I would have paid a full Euro. Even the restrooms in the McDonalds and Burger Kings charge, 20 cents, but you don't have to buy food.
It would take quite a bit for me to feel any empathy toward a cab driver.
They should make their own versions of the "Bladder Buddy" from the first episode of American Inventor. It looked like a big garment bag that you would wear and then you could do number one undercover.
I don't feel sorry for anyone who throw pee bottles out the window onto the street. Animals.
At first glance I read your screen name as "robbingpee".