San Francisco spends $1.7 MILLION on single public toilet that won’t be ready until 2025 – IOTW Report

San Francisco spends $1.7 MILLION on single public toilet that won’t be ready until 2025

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Local officials canceled an event scheduled for Wednesday in San Francisco’s Noe Valley Town Square to celebrate a single public toilet that will cost as much as $1.7 million to build and won’t be completed until 2025. This after a San Francisco Chronicle columnist called out the “mind-boggling” and “maddening” details of the project.
 
California Assemblyman Matt Haney who secured the $1.7 million funding from the state to install the toilet, told the outlet that he now considers the price tag “inexplicable.” more

19 Comments on San Francisco spends $1.7 MILLION on single public toilet that won’t be ready until 2025

  1. In days of old
    When knights were bold
    And toilets weren’t invented
    You left your load
    Upon the road
    And walked away contented

    In other words, just keep on doing what you’re DOING!

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  2. The problem with all these public toilet schemes, is by the time you make them disabled accessible, you can easily fit two sleeping bags side by side in them. Within 24 hours, the homeless shitheads have set up camp in them, and now by law, you have to go through the 30 day eviction process. That is, if the cops can even be bothered.

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  3. It is supposed to be done in 2025. This is California. Nothing done by the government happens on time or under budget. But even if it is done on time . . . what guarantee is there that San Francisco will still be there by that time?

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  4. For the sake of this comment, should I rename myself “Lost in Bureaucracy”?

    The best line from the article:
    a joint statement from the Rec and Parks Department and the Department of Public Works. The departments added in the statement, “While this isn’t the cheapest way to build, it reflects San Francisco’s values.”

    Ya know you can get a rent-a-shitter for about $40 a week; right, SF? But go ahead with your “values”.

    An architect and the Arts Commission to ensure the “project’s design is appropriate to its context in the urban environment, and that structures of the highest design quality reflect their civic stature.” What does that even mean? That the shit will be on the outside?

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