Posted on 10/19/2022 11:23:45 AM PDT by grundle
Evidently no longer content to flush public money down just any old toilet, the city of San Francisco is upping its toilet game and is prepared to spend up to $1.7 million to build a single commode in one neighborhood plaza.
City leaders are slated to gather Wednesday afternoon at the Noe Valley Town Square to officially announce a “$1.7 Million state budget win” to build a toilet there, according to an online event schedule. The proposed facility would include just one toilet in a 150-foot space, according to a new report by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight.
The city’s Recreation and Parks Department and the Department of Public Works, which will work together to build the pricey potty, expect it will take three years to complete.
San Francisco tops the list of the world’s most expensive cities to build in, and the proposed million-dollar toilet helps explain why. While construction costs everywhere have risen over the past couple of years due to inflation and supply-chain challenges, the process to install a single toilet in a San Francisco plaza that already has plumbing includes a maze of planning, permitting, reviews, and public outreach, according to the Chronicle report.
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Ah, what a romantic getaway. The moon is full, the scent of antiseptic urinal cakes is drifting on the breeze...
The city was flushed with cash.
Charmin could sponsor a drawing and the Mayor and other dignitaries could cut the toilet paper across the front and could watch the winner take a seat of honor. Everything came out alright.
If I hired a plumber to install a toilet and it would take him 3 years to finish the job and charge me 1.7 million, I’d be pissed.
The homeless would just use it as a shower.
I remember pay toilets. Department stores had toilets and you needed 5 cents to go into a stall. For stand up needs, no charge. Even way back then the whining voices of “fairness,” “equity,” “misogyny” spoke up and got the things eliminated. So you didn’t have toilets in department stores. Nice going, progressives!
The politicians soon saw an opportunity to make another law, and so they did. Now some public places were required to have free toilets. But not all. Remember gas stations? They had toilets and they cleaned your windshield while they pumped the gas. No more.
Would public toilets work, like in Paris? I doubt it. Civilization has deteriorated to the point where this would not work. They would soon become drug dens and rape rooms. They would be full of trash, excrement and drug needles. Anarchists would take over and bar anyone else from going in, since they were allowed free rein in Portland in 2020 in their “autonomous areas.” Unspeakable crimes would take place in them.
I had an enlightening conversation w/ a contractor who was working on a new bathroom facility by the Marine Corp Memorial in Arlington, VA (Iwu Jima).
I asked him why it took so long to build a simple, single-story facility, and he said that they had to put in structural redundancies and HVAC equipment that would be needed only for 4+ -story buildings.
“We get paid either way,” he said.
That money is going to a contractor that’s probably owned by one of the city council’s relatives.
Always follow the money.
FReepers wishing to avoid a trip through yahooland, and all that implies, can find the original article posted here:
The public comments at National Review are hilarious.
Over $11,000.00/sq ft.
Must be a union contractor.
I’ve been avoiding this movie. I did not know it was documentary of sanfransicko:
“Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2061869/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
“Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her bullied sister, young karate student Megumi accompanies four older friends on a trip into the woods: smart girl Aya, her druggie boyfriend Také, full-figured model Maki, and nerdy Naoi. Things start to go badly when Maki finds a parasitical worm inside a fish - and wolfs it down, in the hope that it will keep her skinny. Her stomach later feels horrible and she relieves herself in an outhouse. The parasitic worm she ate had apparently laid eggs in her stomach
“
Wow!! I wish I could be the first one to use a 1.7-million-dollar toilet!!!!
“Charmin could sponsor a drawing and the Mayor and other dignitaries could cut the toilet paper across the front and could watch the winner take a seat of honor. Everything came out alright.”
Yeah! They could raise the funds to pay the whole thing off!! We could call it: The “Mention My Name and You’ll Get a Good Seat” Contest!
LOL
Next time they’d better keep a lid on costs.
“The USA has the most bloated, expensive government in the world.”
We need to take a meat axe to it.
If it twitches we do it again.
L
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