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Toilet Watch: Come Ask Street Services about APTs

By Eric Richardson — April 25, 2007
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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...

Toilet Watch: Move On to the Next One

By Eric Richardson — April 19, 2007
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Yes, it's been six months and the Pershing Square APT still isn't functional, but why wait to get going on the next toilet? This shot shows where another APT will be installed at 4th & Hill, next to the other side of the Pershing Square subway station. Also falling into the in the ground but not yet in service category are three toilets on Skid Row. The...

Toilet Watch: Twenty Five Weeks And Counting

By Eric Richardson — April 17, 2007
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Three weeks ago I declared Toilet Watch, having waited a good twenty-two weeks for the Pershing Square Automated Public Toilet (APT) to be brought into service. Walking by the APT today nothing has changed. We're now at twenty-five weeks, just one week short of it being six months that the toilet has been in the ground but inoperative. LA City Beat has an...

Toilet Watch: Three More Weeks, APT Still Not Open

By Eric Richardson — March 26, 2007
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I'd really been holding off on declaring this Toilet Watch, but I think at this point it's inevitable. By my calculations the Automated Public Toilet at Pershing Square has now been in the ground for twenty two weeks and has never yet been in service. That's simply amazing to me. I first heard of a Pershing Square APT sighting at the October meeting of DLANC...

Still Holding...

By Eric Richardson — March 07, 2007

The new Automated Public Toilet at 5th & Hill got installed back in November, but nearly four months later it still hasn't seen a minute of service. Walking by this morning it does at least have a new "Not in Service" sign, but no evidence of progress being made. I wrote in January about how seeing something in the ground changes your expectations on when...

Still Waiting on Pershing Square APT

By Eric Richardson — January 22, 2007
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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. ...

Friends of the Sewer Welcome Toilets to Skid Row

By Eric Richardson — November 22, 2006
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Don Garza, chair of DLANC's "Friends of the Sewer" ad-hoc committee, is the bringer of good news on the Automated Public Toilet front. Don has photos of foundation work being doing for two additional APT's in the Skid Row area. The new APT's will both be on San Pedro, between 5th and 6th. That'll make three tightly clustered in that area. Pictured is the APT...