SEATTLE — The mayor’s office plans to hold a public meeting Wednesday evening to discuss the ever-flowing topic of public restrooms in downtown Seattle.
According to a blog released on the mayor’s website, the city will begin to prioritize installation of safe, accessible public restrooms, especially in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. The time for Wednesday’s meeting has not yet been announced.
The mayor and the Alliance for Pioneer Square — a neighborhood group of businesses and citizens — have discussed installing Portland Loos in the Pioneer Square area; an inexpensive, easily maintainable public restroom manufactured in Portland.
The Portland Loo offers privacy and security at a fraction of the cost of other stand-alone models, officials said. They are easily cleaned twice daily and can be in operation 24 hours a day for 365 days a year.
Seattle’s Department of Transportation has identified the Sinking Ship Garage area as a possible location for the Portland Loo. The city would lease the Loo to the Alliance for Pioneer Square, and the group would operate and maintain the restroom.
The mayor anticipates the first loo to be installed by late summer or early fall. If successful, more restrooms could come to downtown.
Metypewell
didn't we already have those ridiculously expensive $250,000 self cleaning toilets fail?
sv1g
Didn't they already try this and they just turned into private places for junkies to shoot heroin???
Scarlet
yes! that was my FIRST thought before reading the article.
Jimmy
I am so glad in the year 2013 we're getting public restrooms! It amazes me that we have little robots driving around on the planet Mars, but we can't seem to have public restrooms in our city.
Brent Scheffler
Um… I thought the city of Seattle sold its self-cleaning public toilets *to* the city of Portland because they were being used for nefarious activities. What makes these any different?
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