Are these the free-standing metal pod-style restrooms? Ask Seattle how those worked out. They spent a couple million to acquire them, and IIRC there was some ongoing fee for a service contract on top of that. And what kind of return did we get for that investment? Tourists with comfortably empty bladders like the brilliantly forward-thinking city leaders had hoped? Nope. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

The drug dealers would set up shop on a park bench 10 feet away from one of those pod crappers, and the users would go inside to smoke/shoot up whatever they bought. Supposedly the doors were set to only allow one person in at a time, but hookers had no difficulty taking their johns in there either. The general public could hardly use them because the criminal element had established them as part of their turf.

Then again, Seattle's were free. Maybe charging a quarter will discourage that sort of activity. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

And if NY's are as "clean" as Seattle's were, I'd probably roll the dice on a public urination ticket and go whizz in an alley for free. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />