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		asow92 on Oct 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toil... I've literally seen someone shit in a subway before, and as we know, single toilets can cost millions of dollars in cities for some reason.

bombcar on Oct 20, 2022 [–]

According to Wikipedia a subway car is only 300k more, so it might be a better deal to buy subway cars to use as restrooms than buying these toilets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R160_(New_York_City_Subway_car...

asow92 on Oct 20, 2022 | [–]

It might get a little messy with the bumps around, but it could work in theory if cleaned regularly.

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