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[tags]los angeles, downtown los angeles, blogdowntown, toilet, red line, purple line[/tags]
This self-cleaning automated public toilet has been at Pershing Square for almost six months, yet it still sits unused.
Credit: Eric Richardson via Flickr (Creative Commons license)
Blogdowntown is officially on Toilet Watch! The intrepid downtown Los Angeles blogger has his finger on the pulse of … well, the finger metaphor is not the most appropriate when talking about waste elimination. Anyway, Blogdowntown says the automated public toilet, valued at $250,000, has arrived 25 weeks ago – that’s 4,224 hours — and is still not operational.
In the meantime, the closest public lavatory is the Pershing Square Metro Red/Purple Line elevator. Disclaimer, per a request from the site’s legal advisors: This last sentence was inserted as a comedic device. MetroRiderLA neither encourages nor condones public urination, defecation, masturbation or any other socially unacceptable -ation. MetroRiderLA shall not be held liable in any instance of criminal or social retribution.
Updated 4-20: Blogdowntown witnesses the installation of a second soon-to-be inoperable public toilet at the Fourth Street Pershing Square subway entrance.
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Call it the “Naughty Potty” take pics and make money.
as a person with famously demanding bowel needs this bothers me, and stress like that is bad for the G.I. tract.
1. fucking thing doesn’t even look like a toilet. It’s looks like some british news bulletin rotunda where you post lost dog signs.
2. it’s in pershing square. that place is already a toilet. It’s not even a park. Unguarded holes in the ground are less dangerous and more clean that place.
saw the new one yesterday… boi lookz nice. can’t wait for the yellow tape decoration.