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Freedom To Flush (For A Quarter)
I have to commend John Street. He saw a problem. He leaped into action. He found a solution. He implemented it. And now Philadelphia has one more high-tech pay toilet at City Hall than it had before. Oh, yes. Within a week, the city’s first pay toilet — costing a cool 25 cents — will open at City Hall, possibly in William Penn’s hat. It apparently sanitizes itself after every use within 50 seconds, although waiting for a minute outside a stupid pay toilet for almost a minute after the previous person is done seems pretty annoying. Still, a sanitized bathroom for a quarter at City Hall. What does KYW 1060’s Mike Dunn think about it?
A bargain. Indeed. City Hall to Get High-Tech Pay Toilet [KYW 1060] |
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Heavy drinking and a weak bladder have made me a bit of a public bathroom connoisseur…a Chrissy on the Spot if you will
Now maybe it’ll be different here than in the UK since the UK is a 2nd world country on its best day… but, when i was living in the UK–I avoided the self cleaning pay toilets for things like alleyways and bushes. The self-cleaning stuff never seemed to really work, and it smelled worse than suburban station used to smell before they redid the bathrooms there. They are also really friggin ugly. Urban blight YES!
Also, at least in Northern England, they had this thing called “letting people use your bathroom without making them buy something”. It’s amazing.
I predict that most of the habitual problem urinators in that area will still use the streets. Why pay a quarter to pee in style when you can wiz away in public for free?