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As part of a proposed $185 million bond issued to help revitalize our parks, Park & Rec head cheese Yomi Agunbiade, announced that a major emphasis of the bond measure will be bringing in new bathrooms. The reason for such a decision is the obvious third-worldyness of current park bathrooms. Twenty points for Gryffindor.
Yumi Yomi says the game plan is to bring in the same kind of bathroom that was recently installed in the panhandle. This plush bathroom includes a skylight, brown tiles, metal restroom doors, and couches with a magazine rack to hang out in while waiting for a stall. It's main feature, however, is that there are no doors into the bathroom so they'll be visible from the outside. According to the theory, this will prevent vandalism, graffiti, and drug usage as everyone can spy in and see what's going on. We're not quite sure that'll work, but whatever.
Oh, total cost of each bathroom? $400,000 each, which according to our guesses is still a little less than some of those new condos being built but not by much.
The proposed bond measure, which will probably be on next February's ballot, will also include money for things like seismic retrofitting, the revamping of rec centers, and improvements to the waterfront. According to some study, it'll cost SF $1.7 billion dollars to completely pimp up the parks but for obvious reasons, we don't have no $1.7 billion lying around.
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"third-worldyness"! Haha! That's hilarious.
Third-worldiness is next to Shurkiness.
Yumi or Yomi?
Brining in new bathrooms?
Are you going to let us brine first?
why not put in the coin op bathrooms, like on the embarcadero, in the parks? the homeless won't want to pay - I think they are pretty clean - and the mommies & kids can have a (somewhat) safer bathroom experience!
Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to do something totally revolutionary, like hiring people to clean the bathrooms?
Probably not. Knowing San Francisco, we'd eventually get a Department of Crapper Cleaners with a $1 billion annual budget.
I have never seen a clean park bathroom in San Francisco in my entire life (or anywhere else for that matter). I also have never seen anyone attempt to clean one or even a cleaning vehicle outside one.
Why so much for a new bathroom? Since we're a santuary, we might as well use illegals to build them (unless we've already outsourced the job to India or maybe we're using slave labor in China?).
Since SF can't keep anything in good working order, why not hire JC Decaux to put in those self cleaning commodes? They often suck, yet they still suck less than the SF maintained ones.
"Knowing San Francisco, we'd eventually get a Department of Crapper Cleaners with a $1 billion annual budget" is absolutely right - no doubt under the thumb of the SEIU. Being a janitor would now be a 6-figure job!
And it would be great, too; you see it all the time in Europe. If it weren't for the fact that any proposal reeking of common sense is immediately shot down in this town of mental defectives, I'd say it would be worth a try. But, honestly, why even bother?