After a Year of Holding, 4th and Hill Toilet Up and Running

Not sure if you already saw this: Crap and Trade: Why public toilets should pay you. Thought it was hilar – and also pretty convivncing –

From my perch overlooking 5th & Hill, I’ve been observing renewed work on the second APT to stand at the southwest corner of this intersection with yellow tape and orange cones being used to delineate where the APT will stand next to Pershing Square.

The present APT is much used and has a line of two or three people often waiting to use the facility. Ending the fee will make it easier for even more folks to utilize this resource.

However, despite the easy access to the nearby APT, many people still prefer to use Lindley Place, the alley between Broadway and Hill, as an open air latrine. While I continue to support the APT program as a vital amenity for residents and visitors to Downtown, I believe the city will need to step up a public information campaign as well as increasing enforcement against public defecation and urination, on grounds of protecting the public health as well as working to dispel Downtown’s pernicious reputation as a place unfriendly and frankly noxious to pedestrians due to the everpresent smell of urine.

I’m speechless. Bravo. Finally…

Seattle recently put five of these up on eBay.

It’s a shame LA didn’t grab these and install them here… We could have had all five installed for about the the price of one.

The real cost is the installation - and not the purchase of the units. And it’s clear that the Seattle models were not of the quality we - or they - needed.