Philadelphia transit agency to test urine-repelling paint – IOTW Report

Philadelphia transit agency to test urine-repelling paint

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city’s main transit agency plans to try urine-repelling paint to combat smells and complaints about cleanliness.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority will run a trial this fall of a product called Ultra-Ever Dry, a surface coating that makes urine spray back on the offender.

SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch said complaints are common for any large transit system. SEPTA’s maintenance crews are always looking for new ways to tackle cleanup issues aside from their regular cleaning routines, he said.

The coating has been used in public spaces in San Francisco and Hamburg, Germany.  MORE

15 Comments on Philadelphia transit agency to test urine-repelling paint

  1. This has got to be a wannabe Onion story.

    There’s no way piss is going to bounce back off anything, much less a bum’s enlarged prostate weak stream.

    At the most, it might help prevent corrosion, but that’s all.

    “Welcome To Philadelphia – What’s That Smell?”

    🙄

  2. I’m with you, Joe. There used to be something called “vagrancy” and it was frowned upon. Ben Franklin said that the only way to move people toward improving their lives (and ours along with it) is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty. I think the same could be said for people who ruin our enjoyment of public (and private) spaces by fouling them and turning our great cities into open sewers. It’s beyond ridiculous.

    And who is paying for the paint and the painters? Mmm hmm.

  3. Urine trouble! used to say that to guys I passed on my to the pisser, they would say why what did I do? I’d reply no I’ve got urine trouble I got to go now! anyway…what happens if the pisser stands a little sidways and pisses two feet down the wall does the paint know that? I doubt it. problem solved.

Comments are closed.