[null and void]

$28.50 per flush and the city doesn't even wipe your butt for you at that price.

They pay the homeless to take a dump?

[BBQToadRibs]

Any bets on how long until they become a homeless hangout for shooting up?

[moovova]

Now, if they could only convince the homeless to use the toilets...and not the sidewalk.

[G Larry]

That's CHEAP!

In Denver store owner have to clean up human poop at their own expense.

Specialty services charge $350 PER PILE to remove it.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Honestly, the idea of public toilets being open all night seems like a good one. The major cost here is that they have two attendants on duty at night to ensure they stay clean and safe. So if you need to have toilets open all night so the homeless don't poop on the sidewalk...sure. I wouldn't complain about my tax dollars going to that if I lived there.

But the problem seems to be that they still aren't using the toilets, and the toilets barely made a dent in the real problem:

[Though] there was a reduction in demand for [sidewalk] cleanups, that reduction doesn’t appear to be all that great....In the quarter-mile radius around the Tenderloin Pit Stop, calls [for sidewalk cleanups] went from 188 in the three months prior to the test to 176 during the three-month test — that’s a drop of four calls per month.

Calls for cleanups in the quarter-mile radius around South of Market Pit Stop dropped to 166 from 190 — eight fewer per month. Calls in the quarter-mile around the Castro Pit Stop dropped from 68 to 61, less than three per month.

So...the problem isn't the lack of toilets.

[PGalt]

ESAD overlords

[chief lee runamok]

"Staffing is the primary cost. The attendants ensure the public bathrooms are kept safe, clean and used for their intended purpose. History has shown that without attendants, public toilets in some of San Francisco’s most challenging neighborhoods are used for drug activity and prostitution, and become targets of vandalism...Two-member teams staffed the toilets during the overnight hours. Just one attendant staffs them the rest of the time."

24/7 full time guards on duty in a crapper.

The hoser attendant most necessary.

[pingman]

It may just be poop to you, butt it’s someone else’s bread and butter!

[Da Coyote]

The homeless are wiping their butts on our wallets.
Oh, and they’re still not actually wiping their butts.
Democrats and homeless. The only diff is that I do have some feelings for the homeless.

[Savage Beast]

It might be cheaper just to wash off the sidewalks every hour or so.

[Wuli]

Most of the cost is labor, and according to the statistics, the three “pit stop” locations were used 10,518 times in an 8 hour period from 11:PM to 7:Am.

That comes to 1,314 times an hour, or nearly 22 times a minute, divided by three would have each location doing an average service of 7 times a minute.

Maybe the city union employed workers are padding their work logs.

[Boogieman]

$28.50 per flush? What are they doing, sending it into low earth orbit?