Seven months in and the Automated Public Toilet experiment in Madison Square Park has been little but a smashing success. The NY Times reports that the only problem has been just how badly people want to get into the toilet with traditional pounding on the door doing more to hurry people along than the APT's acoustic alarm and red flashing lights that go off for three minutes after you've been inside for twelve. Now the......

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......

The city and this site is abuzz with news of new public restrooms that cost only $.25 and are self-sanitizing. The standalone units give one 15 minutes to do your business before scrubbing itself down in advance of the next user. Sounds like a nice convenience, although some people wondered who needs 15 minutes in a restroom other than those with gastro-health problems, drug users, and couples looking to engage in some quasi-public-private sex. Commenter......

For just 25 cents, you finally can experience the steel-and-glass splendor of the city's first new public toilet. City officials gathered in Madison Square Park for the ceremonial first flush of the Automatic Public Toilet (APT). Almost a year after the location was announced and almost 2 years after the toilets were first previewed, Department of Transportation Commissioner Jeannette Sadik-Khan said she was "flushed with excitement in this new era...New Yorkers had their fingers......