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City Finally Proclaims Deal for Public Toilets
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:admin Published:2010-10-29 Read:1266Times |
City Finally Proclaims Deal for Public Toilets
By WINNIE HU
After years of false starts, city officials say they have a deal to finally put paid public toilets on the city's streets.
For more than a decade, city officials have struggled to relieve long-suffering New Yorkers by adding to the streetscape those free-standing lavatories that have become so common in cities from Paris to Chicago. Those efforts always became bogged down in details, like what the toilets should look like and how to pay for them.
Now City Council leaders say they will authorize construction of up to 20 automatic paid toilets when the full Council meets on Wednesday. In doing so, they will be signing off on an ambitious citywide campaign proposed last year by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to spruce up bus shelters, newsstands, street kiosks and even trash cans.
The "street furniture" bill calls for the city to grant a franchise to a single private company to design, install and maintain as many as 4,000 street structures, including toilets, to get a uniform look. The company would sell advertising on the structures and the city would get a share of that revenue, expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few decades. |
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