Bums have a lot of political power in SF and they can pretty much do as they please. Citations are meaningless to them and Bart is not exactly a meritocracy.
Wow. I have been doing it wrong all these years. I could just poop on the floor instead of walking all the way to the bathroom!
BTW: *their
Here's a crazy idea... how about putting toilets in the stations?
... could do towards hiring out of work people to actually clean the stations...
What the residents say is that there are people hired, not cheaply either, to do this, but they simply won't. Evidently management can't make them perform "degrading" jobs and by some accounts they are too busy playing on their iToys and even doing their own inappropriate pooping and peeing.
They have bathrooms, but they were closed down to combat terrorism! Actually, they just didn't want to clean them.
Like I said, not a Meritocracy. And the police are prohibited from doing much because there is a great deal of political support for the notion that "quality of life" laws discriminate against the lifestyle choice of sleeping and pooping on the streets.
Bums have a lot of political power in SF and they can pretty much do as they please. Citations are meaningless to them and Bart is not exactly a meritocracy.
Poop comes out of buttholes.
Agreed. English is a terrible language. But then what would grammar Nazis like myself do?BTW: *there does the job, i see no need to have two version of the same word spelt differently, stupid english
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Ahh but then the argument is that they will be used by nefarious drug dealers/user types and prostitutes , which i think the reason most public restrooms are shut down the world over (nothing to do with the fact they generate no profit, only creating a loss because of the money spent on the cleaning staff/policing needed, and that is money the company CEO or Shareholders could be using, its the american way)
Vancouver was having a similar issue, in it's downtown eastside. Lots of poor people living rough in the neighbourhood, making a mess because the public washrooms were closed. So Vancouver reopened the public washrooms and staffed them with attendants. Their job was simply to keep the facilities clean, and to watch what was happening. But not to call the cops for a drug deal (though they could call for help if someone was in danger). Turns out drug dealers didn't want witnesses, so they stayed away. The washrooms were safe because there was someone whose job was to watch out for you. And they were spotlessly clean. It also turns out that when the city started taking pride in the washrooms, the street residents did too - and they helped to keep the facilities safe and clean.
What you just said there sounds a lot like empirical evidence. Since when did that have any place in public policy!?
That's the problem with being married to a senior public policy analyst... you kinda take these things seriously....
But seriously, who looks at an escalator and thinks " I want to see my poop climb the stairs" ?