"Hub's super bowl is nearly ready; Problems stalled $300,000 toilet" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | June 7, 2009
Yup, that is your METRO LEAD (ha-ha-ha-ha-ha)!
Also see: The Boston Globe Takes a Seat on the Shitter
The Boston Globe is Obsessed With Feces
The Boston Globe Goes Into the Toilet
The New York Times Goes Into the Toilet
Their OBSESSION is WORSE than MY PROFANE and COLORFULLY LITERATE DESCRIPTIONS!!!!
WHAT the HELL am I being LOCKED OUT for?
A coin-operated toilet that took more than two years and $300,000 to bring from drawing board to reality. And it still hasn't had its first flush.
You gotta be kidding, right?
You can't even BUILD a TOILET in Boston w/out F***ING IT UP????????
And you are going to CHARGE FOR IT?
Excuse me as I duck into this alley and behind the restaurant trash bin.
Better watch your step.
"This was the perfect storm," said Peter O'Sullivan, the city's director of street furniture, who is in charge of sidewalk restrooms, kiosks, bus shelters, and the like. "There were more complications on this one than on any toilet we've worked on."
I don't think a plunger is gonna cut it.... HEEEEEEEELLLLLPPPP!!!!
No wonder the CITY STINKS!!!!!
City officials commissioned the gleaming commode on the edge of Christopher Columbus Park near the North End as a basic convenience for tourists who line up for ferries to the Boston Harbor islands. It is the seventh city toilet out of a planned 10 that have been built since Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed to bring such a fundamental amenity to Boston in 1997, after admiring a public toilet in San Francisco. Most have been installed in a few months.
Not this one. Getting it built has whipped up a tragicomedy of frustrations, delays, and engineering problems that shows that, when it comes to building in downtown Boston, things rarely go according to plan.....
(ha-ha-ha-ha-ha; oh, ya' step in something there, Globe!?)
Thankfully for taxpayers, a city contract stipulates that all costs, including any overruns, are paid by Wall Decaux Inc., which builds Boston's toilets and bus shelters in exchange for the right to sell ads on them. The toilets typically cost $250,000.
"We don't pay a penny," said Michael Galvin, Boston's chief of public property and construction management. "Nothing. And we haven't from Day One."
Work on the restroom began simply enough in March 2008, a year after the city first developed the initial plans.
Over a YEAR to PUT in a TOILET? I'll bet the S*** piled up, huh?
But soon after the digging began, workers discovered that the sewer lines were not where they appeared on engineering diagrams.
(I'm sorry; ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
They modified the toilet's plumbing, received city approval for the changes, lowered the unit into place, and bricked over the site. But the toilet sat more than 2 inches above the sidewalk, a violation of wheelchair-accessibility law.
(I'm sorry; ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! I want some state double-dipper to clean up the mess in the wheelchair!)
WTF is WRONG with MY STATE CAPITOL, hey?!!!
Workers left the unit in the ground for the winter, because the city bans construction from November to April. This spring, they removed it, dug a deeper hole, and lowered it back into place. Worried that sewage would wash into the harbor, they added another pump. Then they relaid the bricks....
Yesterday, William Walker, president of Water Transportation Alternatives, a ferry service whose passengers have had to scurry several hundred yards inside a nearby hotel to use the facilities, surveyed the sleek, glass-and-steel restroom, which sat inside a fenced-in construction site, as four workers tested its plumbing and electrical connections. Wall Decaux said it was not surprised by the toilet travails.
Glass? I AIN'T SHITTING in NO GLASS HOUSE!!!!!!
Now city officials say the toilet is nearing completion. But no one is quite ready to say when it will open to the public. They estimate it might take another two weeks....
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!!!
Or MAYBE TWO YEARS?!!!!!!
I don't think I can hold it!
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Thanks, Globe!
I haven't had that much fun with a post in a long time!
