"The door to the stainless-steel box slides open, and one of New York City's more closely guarded secrets is revealed ”” a self-cleaning pay toilet that will soon be coming to city streets." nytimes | which kind-of makes this scheme obsolete ...
Bull-oney. This plan, as indicated by the New Yorker article, is the one that's been made obsolete by the restroom-mapping project.
These pay toilets have been (coming to)(about to come to) (on the verge of being ubiquitous on) NY City streets for the entire 7 years I've lived here, and to date I've seen 1, in Herald Square. Even if they do roll out, they'll be out of order, colonized by homeless people and covered with grafitti. And self cleaning won't clean the poo off the walls. And there will only be 20 of them. In the whole city.
Yes, there are a lot of disadvantages to a McDonalds or Starbucks on every corner, but a generally-clean, publicly-available restroom is not one of them.
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Bull-oney. This plan, as indicated by the New Yorker article, is the one that's been made obsolete by the restroom-mapping project.
These pay toilets have been (coming to)(about to come to) (on the verge of being ubiquitous on) NY City streets for the entire 7 years I've lived here, and to date I've seen 1, in Herald Square. Even if they do roll out, they'll be out of order, colonized by homeless people and covered with grafitti. And self cleaning won't clean the poo off the walls. And there will only be 20 of them. In the whole city.
Yes, there are a lot of disadvantages to a McDonalds or Starbucks on every corner, but a generally-clean, publicly-available restroom is not one of them.
I find that McDonalds tend to be much cleaner than Starbucks, and both tend to be much less gross than the girls bathroom at Meyerson Hall (penn) ...
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