Portland Loo: Success where others have Failed

[danem]

I'm amused that every single picture shows gray, overcast skies.

[JeffreyS]

...with an annual maintenance fee of $12,000.

Well there goes ANY chance of Jacksonville ever embracing this idea.

Well if we won't spend 1000 a month keeping it clean I don't want it.

[JeffreyS]

Boston has the pay-a-quarter public toilets as well (completely hygenic): 

I like this one. The next you know Republicans will want it to turn a profit.

[Jaxson]

I believe that these comfort stations would help to make downtown a more attractive place to visitors.  I also know that the inevitable complaints about how the homeless would ruin these comfort stations will pop up.  I believe that our policy toward downtown viability needs to have more dimension than just figuring out ways to keep downtown as unattractive as possible...

[thelakelander]

The Loo is designed to be vagrant proof. I'm not sure about others that have been posted in this thread.

[Jaxson]

I know that, Lakelander, but you know that there will be those who would rather deny any decent amenities simply because of those few bad apples in town...

[thelakelander]

You're right, there will be those who take that position.  However, the easiest way to move past this is to present facts that clearly discredit their position.  Something like the Loo appears to have specifications that logically poke holes in the homeless/vagrant argument.

[cayohueso]

I hear that the dream of the 90's is alive in Portland.