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S.F. is spending $1.7 million on one public toilet: ‘What are they making it out of — gold?’
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/million-dollar-toilet-17518443.php ^

Posted on 10/20/2022 3:51:05 AM PDT by qwerty1234

San Francisco politicians will gather at the Noe Valley Town Square Wednesday afternoon to congratulate themselves for securing state money for a long-desired toilet in the northeast corner of the charming plaza.

Another public toilet in a city with far too few of them is excellent. But the details of this particular commode? They’re mind-boggling, maddening and encapsulate so much of what’s wrong with our city government.

The toilet — just one loo in 150 square feet of space — is projected to cost $1.7 million, about the same as a single-family home in this wildly overpriced city. And it won’t be ready for use until 2025.

Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) secured the $1.7 million from the state for the toilet after hearing “loud and clear” from the community that families needed a bathroom.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: sanfrancisco
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1 posted on 10/20/2022 3:51:05 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: qwerty1234
Paging George Costanza


2 posted on 10/20/2022 4:00:56 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: qwerty1234

Some Rat Party hack made a pretty penny on *that* contract!


3 posted on 10/20/2022 4:02:02 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: qwerty1234

Versions of this have been around for decades now. NYC was looking at $2M apiece years and years ago.

Only a government (with a contractor in on the con)...


4 posted on 10/20/2022 4:02:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: qwerty1234

I thought the city WAS the public toilet.


5 posted on 10/20/2022 4:09:39 AM PDT by mykroar (Democrats support both types of allowed thought: Marxist and Leninist.)
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To: qwerty1234

And my leftist aunt is glad the conservatives are moving out of her state of California.

She is a Bernie supporter and I think is a bit delusional. I wonder who she thinks will pay the bills?


6 posted on 10/20/2022 4:12:00 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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“is projected to cost $1.7 million, about the same as a single-family home in this wildly overpriced city. And it won’t be ready for use until 2025.”

To be more realistic, the cost will come to 12 million and it won’t be ready for use until 2034.


7 posted on 10/20/2022 4:35:42 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: qwerty1234

Didn’t a bunch of Democrats MAKE THEIR NAMES by listing the price of toilet seats that the military bought, decades ago?


9 posted on 10/20/2022 5:14:14 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Poland: 31 degrees)
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To: qwerty1234

The foundation on which the toilet is constructed is graft. The roof is corruption.


10 posted on 10/20/2022 5:16:05 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: qwerty1234

It’s very expensive for a contractor to do business with any governmental office. Lots of hands are out.


11 posted on 10/20/2022 5:26:14 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: lowbridge

And due to water rationing, you can flush only once per day, and you cannot use captured rain water.


12 posted on 10/20/2022 5:41:10 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: lowbridge

And it will be plugged up and unusable within 36 hours of opening.


13 posted on 10/20/2022 5:43:01 AM PDT by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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To: qwerty1234

Not gold, that’s too cheap.

It’s made of graft and kickbacks.


14 posted on 10/20/2022 6:07:32 AM PDT by null and void (← Not delusional, just differently realitied...)
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To: Kaiser8408a
Yes, I am from San Francisco.

Hopefully far, far from San Fransisco!

15 posted on 10/20/2022 6:09:13 AM PDT by null and void (← Not delusional, just differently realitied...)
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To: qwerty1234

San Fecesisco. What, the streets are no longer good enough to relieve yourself. The elites want to use a toilet? What part of public toilet means doing it on the street don’t they understand?


17 posted on 10/20/2022 6:31:15 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: mykroar

You got that right.


18 posted on 10/20/2022 6:59:35 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: qwerty1234

I remember reading of one of our big cities putting in public self cleaning toilets. They were so successful that after a while the city tore them out.

Some things the cities do makes absolutely no sense.


19 posted on 10/20/2022 7:38:30 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( FR is on GAB! https://gab.com/groups/67851)
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To: BobL

I remember that! toilet seats and hammers.


20 posted on 10/20/2022 7:39:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( FR is on GAB! https://gab.com/groups/67851)
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