>From: Anton Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>In the Seventies I remember reading of something called the Committee to
>Eliminate Pay Toilets In America.
If they'd changed it to "Committee to Eliminate Pay Toilets In Communities,"
they could have named themselves "C.E.P.T.I.C". Opportunities like that
don't come along every day.
OK, now for the real contribution:
>
>San Francisco has a few public loos, on the street in tourist zones.
>Before they were installed, there was bitter controversy over their
>design: it would be unthinkable not to accommodate wheelchairs, but that
>would make them big enough for drunks and junkies to sleep in. If
>memory serves (it's often faulty) this was resolved by giving them a
>price and a time-limit; as first conceived, they were to be supported
>entirely by advertising.
>
I thought the point of requiring coins to access a public restroom (like
many restaurant bathrooms in Boston require) was to keep the indigent out in
the first place. If not, then I suppose that's another economic puzzle for
the forum: why do some public restrooms in restaurants / bookstores require
either coins OR free tokens to use?
-JP
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