Saturday, March 19, 2016

Public toilets sit unused in warehouse for 10 years


From CBS 2:

If you are looking for a public restroom in New York City, you will find a dozen of them by walking down an off-the-beaten-track lane toward a warehouse in an industrial section of Maspeth, Queens. They are automatic and self-cleaning, and they have been sitting there unused for about a decade.

The public toilets are operated, or should be, by the JCDecaux company of France. But currently, there are only four of them installed on the streets of the city, and the one CBS2 found at Corona Plaza in Queens was not even working on Friday.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do we really want these things stinking up our neighborhoods? The homeless, criminals, addicts, and vandals will only destroy them in a few weeks time. They need CONSTANT attention to maintenance. Toss the ones in storage into the Atlantic Ocean. At least the fish will make good use of them.

Anonymous said...

The city can't even maintain the ones in the public parks let alone have yet more public restrooms! I can't even stand to let my daughter go to the one in the park! It's so filthy in there! Whenever she had to go to the bathroom, I would bring her back home and say that playtime in the park is over, you can go play in the backyard!

Anonymous said...

No sh*t!!!

Anonymous said...

Bloomberg made a huge deal out of this cermusa contract a decade ago - these toilets were supposed to be all over the city long ago... The real meat of this story is: where did the money for these toilets go? Why does cermusa still have this big city contract that they have largely failed to deliver on?

Anonymous said...

Who needs public toilets? Now it's OK to piss in public. The end of civilization is near.

(sarc) said...

More of our money wasted.

leave it alone and let it DIE!!!

As with any Government program - once instituted, it NEVER goes away...

Anonymous said...

Can't we do better than this? It really is unbelievable. The person(s) responsible should be held accountable. Heads should roll.

Camel bladder said...

We should have public toilets in a civilized society, if not we will have to allow public urination and defication. Oh wait a minute we have just done that, I forgot. Any way the self cleaning toilets were a great idea. The only problem is the homeless , or more correctly defined " bums", the perverts and the vandals. The solution to keep most of this human scum out of all public bathrooms is charge a use fee. Unfortunately there are these mindless special interest advocates that file lawsuits against charging use fees. So here we are, no usable public bathrooms in the nation's premier city but shit and piss everywhere. Isn't the liberal mindset great?

JQ LLC said...

CBS news should have mentioned the public restroom outside the warehouse.

The alley walls.

And anywhere any place after midnight. Large trees, bank parking lots, and by the boardwalks.

Cemusa has become quite a parasite for our funding, thanks to mayor fun size. They also took over news stands and bus stops. And the only reason they exist is for gaudy advertising, as that junkpile in Corona proves.

Anonymous said...

We should have public toilets in a civilized society, if not we will have to allow public urination and defication. Oh wait a minute we have just done that, I forgot. Any way the self cleaning toilets were a great idea. The only problem is the homeless , or more correctly defined " bums", the perverts and the vandals. The solution to keep most of this human scum out of all public bathrooms is charge a use fee. Unfortunately there are these mindless special interest advocates that file lawsuits against charging use fees. So here we are, no usable public bathrooms in the nation's premier city but shit and piss everywhere. Isn't the liberal mindset great?

Who do you think will actually keep these bathrooms clean? The government employees? Yea, sure, get real! Look around you at the bathrooms in nyc. They are filthy! Charging a fee doesn't keep out the bums....haven't we learned this from the mta? Fares keep rising but yet there are more and more bums now on the train cars! Charging a fee doesn't work. What if I needed to use one of these toilets and I don't have the fee on me? I'd still be pissing in the streets that would only make it even worst charging a fee. I'd rather the city save the money then hire more useless employees.

Anonymous said...

Alas...the Queens crapping blues!
Can't even take a decent dump in this borough!

Then there is Flushing...aptly named for its stench filth and squalor.
The home of Peter Koo it's no show councilman.
When we speak of home, we mean his district . His residence is in the. great Neck Port Washington area. He hides this by maintaining a bogus address in his district. Hmmmm....so did the Stavisky's for decades.

That is what is most shitty about Queens' political toilet.

Anonymous said...

Some city workers are homeless and use "Food Stamps" now called SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)! Stagnate wages, soaring housing cost and the ever rising cost of living has made NYC unlivable for many hard working people. The war one workers !

Anonymous said...

On Workers... Spelling error :-O

Camel bladder said...

Hey Anon, you should read more carefully. In my third sentence I said SELF CLEANING TOILETS. The reason we have bums in the subway is because the fare is too cheap, even they can afford it once in a while for a nice warm place to take a shit or jerk off into some unfortunate young girls coat pocket. We should have SELF CLEANING TOILETS everywhere and there should be no access unless the high fee is paid. And then maybe any subhuman that gets caught pissing or shitting in public should be arrested and given 60 days of labor cleaning shit off the streets. Ah, it's great to dream isn't it?

Anonymous said...

Within one hour after they are opened, they will be trashed. They will then be closed for two years of repairs. We can't even repair subway escalators, much less public plumbing.

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, this city has packed itself with wild, savage beasts, and such civilized things such as public restroom facilities would simply be abused and destroyed, or worse, inhabited, buy these feral creatures.

Anonymous said...

They ARE being used, to empty the brains of civil servatns