{"id":40184,"date":"2015-02-20T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T02:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40184"},"modified":"2020-07-14T22:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T02:43:58","slug":"i-give-it-two-days-if-not-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40184","title":{"rendered":"I give it two days, if not already"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Impetus<\/a>: MARTA introduces hi-tech \u201cpublic bathroom of the future\u201d at Lindbergh Center station. It is allegedly vandalism-proof, loiter-proof, digitally monitored in a variety of manners, and basically gives users pretty much nothing to do but do their business and leave. Hopes are that it becomes successful, and sets the standard for public restrooms to be implemented in transit stations all across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bahahahahahahahaha. MARTA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bahahahahaha.<\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, now that that\u2019s out of the way; it\u2019s like I could switch my brog to feature absolutely nothing but stories about MARTA, and I could probably make like three posts a day for the next year or so.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But yeah, MARTA. Not only just opening up a public restroom at a train station, they\u2019re opening up a public restroom that has cost an absurd amount of money:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Both (president of company that designed the bathroom) and MARTA put the installation cost at about $100,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

$100,000 for a bathroom? I still owe close to $100,000 on my mortgage. For my house. That has three bathrooms in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess we can see where MARTA funds go towards, instead of, y\u2019know, expand service, hire more employees, security or things that might be mistaken as being \u201cuseful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, the intention is of course one of high hopes and positivity, but there\u2019s a very major reason why train stations all across not just the entire country, but the entire world, are often times locked, not operated, and unavailable:<\/span><\/p>\n

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vandalism, loitering, and illicit transactions (such as drug-use or prostitution)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not mentioned is the simple fact that stations frankly don\u2019t want to have to pay for a custodian to maintain these bathrooms, which is a shitty (no pun intended) job in itself, because let\u2019s face it, in spite of how civilized people (at least men) are in their own private residential restrooms, they become less functional with their bodily functions than a newborn baby when they\u2019re within a public restroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Compound all that with the convenience that an asshole can shit all over the walls, leave the bathroom looking like a murder scene, and then hop onto a train and be whisked away from the scene of the crime, and it\u2019s the perfect recipe for why public restrooms are almost non-existent in the transit world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a list of things the supposed restroom of the future is capable of, and what could, and probably will, if it already hasn\u2019t, go wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n