Toilet Watch: Come Ask Street Services about APTs
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — 
According to my count this is the six-month anniversary of the Pershing Square Automated Public Toilet getting installed at 5th and Hill. As we've covered here plenty of times, that time has seen the APT sit empty and unusable, not yet having been put into service.
Tonight Lance Oishi from the City's Bureau of Street Services will be attending a meeting of DLANC's Transportation & Public Works committee to answer questions about what's going on with the program. The meeting is at 6pm, at Bunker Hill Towers (800 W. 1st) in the Tower Room.
Afterward I'll certainly be updating those who can't make it on what was said.
In other Toilet Watch news, be sure to check out Dennis Smith's comment on current happenings at Pershing Square.
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
LAstraphanger on April 25, 2007, at 02:23PM – #1
OMG, has that thing been sitting there useless for six months?? Time flies... Fortunately, the one at the North Hollywood Metro subway terminal works. It looks like another toilet is being installed at Fourth and Hill; guess we'll have to wait six months or more for that one too. Meanwhile, the guys are using the wall on the north side of that subway entrance as a public urinal...can't wait until those hot summer days heat things up!
Jason on April 25, 2007, at 04:32PM – #2
This is the most pee-happy city I have ever lived in.
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a friend of mine on the sidewalk near Sunset & Las Palmas in Hollywood. She broke into laughter when she noticed a grown man whipping it out right on Sunset, happily relieving himself.
Maybe we should all stop drinking so much.
Whitman Lam on April 25, 2007, at 09:00PM – #3
I don't care if they charge us 50 cents or 75 cents for a pee. Just need to get the damn thing working. I'm tired of holding it all the way to the central library.
hsosa on April 25, 2007, at 11:24PM – #4
damm. would have been good to open for fiesta broadway.