Flushed away: NYC paying $5.3M to install toilets costing less than $1M

[Kamaji]

Flushed away: NYC paying $5.3M to install toilets costing less than $1M

By Bernadette Hogan, Jack Morphet, Nolan Hicks and Kate Sheehy
February 27, 2023

These thrones aren’t made of gold — but they oughta be.

A pilot project to buy and install a single high-tech toilet in a park in each of the five boroughs could cost New York City taxpayers a whopping $5.3 million — despite the quintet of commodes selling for less than a million dollars in total.

One of the Portland Loo brand toilets, which cost about $185,000 a pop, is set to be placed in each of the five parks to start a long-awaited project to bring relief to Big Apple residents, city officials said Monday.

But the total project — including the loos’ installation in a city mired in bureaucratic red tape and head-spinning building regulations — is expected to balloon the total price tag to more than $5 million, or an average of over a million dollars per potty.

A Parks Department rep blamed the massive bill at least partly on installation costs. 

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/185k-a-pop-public-toilets-are-coming-to-nyc-parks/

[Kamaji]

[Fishrrman]

They would have done much better by placing plastic port-a-potties here and there (with a frequent service contract). Much more for the money.