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The exciting innovations from Zohran Mamdani just keep on coming. The groceries and the buses aren’t free, but there will be free bathrooms.
And by ‘free’, that means taxpayers will be paying $200,000 per toilet.
Mamdani is committing $4 million to expand public bathroom access across the five boroughs, he announced Saturday.
Within Mamdani’s first 100 days in office, the city’s Economic Development Corporation will seek bids to “install public bathrooms at a lower cost and on a faster timeline than existing public bathroom installations,” the mayor’s office said.
As part of a pilot program, 20-30 high-quality modular bathrooms will be installed across the city. Part of the mayor’s franchise agreement for the modular bathrooms is to have them be self-cleaning and have maintenance conducted twice a day.
So that’s between $133,000 to $200,000 per toilet. Talk about flushing money down the toilet.
And that’s just the pilot program.
Is this going to work? Of course not. The reason there are few usable public toilets is because they tend to be used by the drug addled vagrants that politicians and the media fancifully described as the ‘homeless’.
That means private bathrooms available to the public are disappearing and the public ones tend to be rendered unusable by anyone except the homeless.
New York City libs have given up even claiming that the public bathrooms are meant for anyone other than mentally ill vagrants, with some DSAers insisting that not having public bathrooms or public urination ‘criminalizes homelessness’.
The city did use to have pay toilets. That at least forces those using them to put some skin in the game. Those however were banned. And the alternative is that there are no usable toilets. But every so often, New York City spends millions in the futile hope of building public toilets that will last for more than 5 minutes and cost less than a house in a rural area.
Once that option gets exhausted, the Mamdani operation is going to back to the preferred lefty policy of forcing restaurants to open their bathrooms to mentally ill junkie vagrants. And then they’ll be as unusable as the other bathrooms in the city. And people will stop going to the $200 steak house when not only is the bathroom unusable, but there’s a line of addicts who smell like death warmed over waiting in line.
Instead of the Outback Steak House in New York City, it will have the Outhouse Steak House. LOL
It’s “other peoples money” so why should he care? In politics, spending other peoples money is how things are done. Business as usual.
The people of New York City don’t know what a toilet is let alone how to use one. Anyway who needs toilets when you can go on the sidewalk.
Sickening to see warm ‘democratic socialism’ in action;
How I distrust and detest anyone who swears in on a quran…
Anything available free to the public is liable to be abused. Public parks, public libraries, etc. A nominal charge, say a quarter, might help.
Those modular, self cleaning public toilets are horrendous.
They are cold, damp, the floors are always wet, and a lot time the doors don’t fasten properly.
And that’s in the richest per capita city in Australia with very little of the homeless brain burned druggie population, not a shithole the like of NYC.
“Mamdani to Spend $200,000 Per Toilet”
That’s normal, that’s where he comes from.
Another example of how Mamdani doesn’t know squat (no pun intended) about New Yorkers. Most New Yorkers who have lived in Manhattan for any period of time, know how to find a clean, safe toilet when one is needed. Granted it is a big deal for the homeless, but not for the 8,500 people/toilet that mathematically challenged Mamdani claims it is.
Three cheaper solutions.
1) Buy porta potties for $800 each and install them across NYC and force woke “socialist” white female Karens to clean them out weekly as penance for their whiteness — overalls and rubber gloves provided free to each shit-scrubbing Karen.
2) Build Paris style pissoirs across NYC for men to use to piss when on the run — each pissoir has a drain linked to the sewer and metal partitions so no one sees the actual pissing only the legs of the men are visible below the elevated (for air flow) partitions. I used them while travelling cheaply in Paris in the 1980s and found them really handy though admittedly weird (even behind a partition) to be standing pissing on a crowded city street with people all around (how bourgeois “far right” of me!)
3) Ship all the homeless and “street involved” people in NYC to Cuba. Tell them they’re all getting “free trips to the sun” then ship them via one of those cheap cruise liners that have those ghetto trash brawls and deposit the homeless in Havana so they can enjoy living in real communism.
Problem solved for fraction of Mandami’s corruption-bloated costs.
I still remember the Paris Pissoirs from 1961 when I was a kid. One could smell the stench from the street.