Still Waiting on Pershing Square APT
Eric Richardson
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The Automated Public Toilet (APT) at the Pershing Square Red Line station was installed back in November, a little over two months ago. You still can't use it, though, as it's never quite made it into service.
It's interesting to me how seeing something in the ground changes your expectations. We'd been asking for the APT for years before it showed up. Two months in that sense isn't all that long. But when you see something installed and physically it looks finished, you expect it to open. When it doesn't you get impatient.
I have no clue what's holding up this particular APT. I sure hope it's a real delay, and not just red-tape that's backlogging final approval. The lack of public restrooms Downtown is a very real problem that spans ethnic and class lines. The sooner and more thoroughly we can start to actively address it, the better.
All Toilet Watch coverage:
- 05/03/07 -- Times Gives APTs Some Ink
- 04/26/07 -- Blame DWP
- 04/25/07 -- Come Ask Street Services about APTs
- 04/19/07 -- Move On to the Next One
- 04/17/07 -- Twenty Five Weeks and Counting
- 03/26/07 -- Three More Weeks; APT Still Not Open
- 03/07/07 -- Still Holding
- 01/22/07 -- Still Waiting on Pershing Square APT
- 11/22/06 -- Friends of the Sewer Welcome Toilets to Skid Row
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Glad you posted this item. A lot of people (myself included) who regularly pass through this corner have been wondering the same thing. Once it does finally open, it'll be interesting to see if the nearby Metro station elevator ceases to be used as a de facto toilet for the area.