According to the PI, our new space-age public restrooms are a success:
Seattle’s automated public toilets program is flush with success, averaging more than 600 uses a day in Pioneer Square and near Pike Place Market.
The usage is “about 10 times higher than what is considered normal in Europe,” according to a report given to the City Council’s Utilities and Technology Committee yesterday.
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p>I’ve still not used one of these things — but then, I’m still convinced that they’re eating people.
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I’ve used one here near the market and one in San Francisco, near Golden Gate gardens when I was tracking CDs at Amoeba. They’re cool in the sense that when and where did anyone imagine a toilet could be so high tech. They’re intimidating because you sometimes have to wait for them to finish the cleaning cycle before the door will open, and, once inside they tell you that you have basically ten minutes and then it’ll go into a cleaning cycle and notify the cops - or some other organization - that you’ve died inside the thing. You’d only know this, btw, if you read the stuff on the inside of the door and if you’ve got to go - well, you ain’t gonna be reading any door. Only on this planet.