The website FAQ is pretty interesting. Eg:

>How often do we need to clean The Portland Loo®? In Portland they get cleaned 2-5 times a day. There is also a number to report incidents inside the restroom for cleaning.

>How does The Portland Loo® address the issue of drug use? The Portland Loo® uses angled louvers for police and security to limit privacy. The Portland Loo® also uses blue lights to prevent drug users from locating veins.  

>How does The Portland Loo® help reduce inappropriate use such as prostitution and drugs? The open bottom and top of the restroom allow sight lines and sounds to carry outside the restroom. The restroom should be sited with Crime Prevention Through Environmental Designs (CPTED) that places the restroom in visible areas that prevent crime with open sight lines.

>How long can I expect The Portland Loo® to last? With proper maintenance The Portland Loo® is expected to last up to one hundred years.

Yes and I’ve seen many tourists use it. It has its bad days when homeless people camp out by it on the benches or where the trash is kept, but most of the year it’s fine—and it’s been much better since foot traffic picked back up.

Plus, according to the website, these loos use blue tinted lights that make it difficult for drug users to locate veins.

I imagine they’ve made design iterations since the first installations.

Is it really the waiting issue or gig workers desire to be able to pick up more deliveries so they can make more money?

I’m in that industry.

Walked out of a job, went to a bar, talked about walking out of my job to random people at the bar, one of whom offered me a temp job. One of my co workers at the temp job had an old friends who was looking for an employee, and like that I was hired.

Small family run business that’s been doing it for decades, not many people do it so you tend to run into the same people doing related work, engineers, installers etc all the time. A lot of internal drama, often if you get on the wrong side of a city employee they will make it difficult for you to get things permitted. Or often previous owners had unfinished permits, violations which make things more complicated.

Overall it’s an easy job that pays OK and my office in particular is closed whenever the Department of Buildings is closed, we work pretty much all remote, and by 3PM it gets quiet and I can more or less sign off.

I have also learned why projects like these can take so long to get approved and why they seem like a scam. If you’re doing an inspection, often the client, business owner, property owners, engineers, property electrician, general contractors, people who provide lifting trucks, city inspectors all have a stake and need to be present to ensure things go smoothly on all ends. One person missing the inspection might fuck the entire inspection up if they forgot to point something out and now you have to reschedule ALL those people and it costs thousands more suddenly. And the city inspector is pissed they have to come back again so they will find a way to give you a hard time or ignore you.

Yes! I knew it wasn't right

Thx

The process itself is a punishment.

You shouldn't have all the consequences associated with an arrest (especially when talking about pretrial detention) for clear cut self defense. Your view is complete bullshit: Let someone beat you to death, or spend years in jail fighting a murder charge.

If I find out who this is, I will do what the useless NYPD will not.

For real, shits gotten way out of hand.

NY Dems really fucked up this past congressional race

Do you think the rest of the world feels like they’ve been “infiltrated” by the US due to Facebook, Instagram, Google, Apple, etc?

Super nonstory.

When are you going to realize that the MTA generates revenue and since it does that the state can have the MTA float bonds to get more money? The MTA is the state's piggy bank, no one will be held accountable for any misspending because then the whole states bookkeeping would be exposed

Oh so nobody... got it.

I'm just reminded how many times I've gone into Union Pool solely for the restroom, especially since the urinals have a separate weight wait to stalls.

I usually ended up getting a taco after the fact anyway so it's not like I wasn't giving them my patronage

Can the MTA produce some viable accounting reports that show where the money is? No reason to throw money down a bottomless pit.

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dycd/downloads/pdf/Org_chart1-23.pdf take note of the people making these cruel decisions.

I've almost certainly been vegan way longer* than you and I'm downvoting this.

It's off-topic but that's almost secondary.

This behavior doesn't win people over, because it's annoying. If anything it reinforces the "annoying vegan" trope.

I appreciate the effort you're putting in, but I think it's best directed elsewhere.

*a bit over 27 years.

Don’t you get it? Fare evaders is a bigger problem than their own stealing time

That Urban Space is cool but damn is it pricey

Why should 49 other States citizens pay for problems in our city? You’re the goddamn leadership, aren’t you? You play up your city street cred, you promise us the world every election cycle, you have the ear of our Governor & Mayor, you have been in control for decades s All I see is problems piling up, and getting worse. Why is that?

They have plumbing as in the toilets flush and there’s a tap on the outside of the loo with a gutter, not a sink (to deter bathing etc). I think they have electricity via solar panel — it’s dim-ish blue lighting to ensure it’s harder to find veins to shoot up. Oh, and there’s a hose connection so someone can hose down the whole thing to clean it if it gets bad.

The restrooms are really well-optimized for public safety, used one in Burlington, VT, it did the job well!

We can reopen the sbarros

They did send a message. They voted for Cuomo who ran out the best manager the MTA ever had. And Hochul is like him in the mirror-verse.

Are you kidding? you don’t think China is aware that our country has allowed them to infiltrate us via tik tok?

It's disappointing to see politics getting in the way of funding for vital services like public transportation. We need to prioritize investing in infrastructure for the good of everyone.