I have been disgusted with bathroom privatization for some time, both downtown and in general. We should really be fining all the businesses that are essentially taking a collective public poo on everyone, except their own customers [“A potty for all people” RC, June 26].
I’m actually serious: I don’t see why we should waste perfectly good public dollars on new toilets when we have perfectly good ones everywhere, equipped with privacy and plumbing. And frankly the city is incompetent.
The most heavily used public restrooms at the hideous architectural experimental display (I mean the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library) are also the worst ones: The doors are so small you have to walk in with your head awkwardly twisted in shame just to avoid staring at people while they do their business. I guess if we admitted the architect was conducting an extended psychology experiment, or confrontational performance art show, that would at least explain the exorbitant expense of these shitty shitters.