{"id":396,"date":"2005-09-22T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/sweet_relief.html"},"modified":"2005-09-22T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T16:17:13","slug":"sweet_relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/sweet_relief.html","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/348703p-297541c.html\">Pay toilets are on the way<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city announced yesterday that it was in exclusive negotiations with a Spain-based firm to build 3,300 bus stop shelters, 330 sidewalk newsstands &#8211; and, at long last, toilets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a good idea,&#8221; said Lucien Perry, 40, a real estate broker from Harlem. &#8220;There&#8217;s no place to use the bathroom around here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear exactly where the 20 self-cleaning pay toilets Cemusa Inc. wants to build would be placed, how much it would cost to use them and how soon they would make it to the streets.<\/p>\n<p>But the figure that&#8217;s caught the city&#8217;s eye is Cemusa CEO Toulla Constantinou&#8217;s pledge to pay $1 billion over 20 years for the right to plaster advertising on the toilets &#8211; as well as on the newsstands and bus shelters.<\/p>\n<p>The precise toilet design has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Similar Cemusa loos in places like Sevilla, Spain, come equipped with a tiny sink for washing up and timers that regulate how long users can tend to their business. Afterward, the toilets automatically clean up with disinfectant spray.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Until then, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebathroomdiaries.com\/usa\/new%2Byork\/\">catch as catch can<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pay toilets are on the way: The city announced yesterday that it was in exclusive negotiations with a Spain-based firm to build 3,300 bus stop shelters, 330 sidewalk newsstands &#8211; and, at long last, toilets. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a good idea,&#8221; said Lucien Perry, 40, a real estate broker from Harlem. &#8220;There&#8217;s no place to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}