Flushing Out The Truth About Boston's Public Toilets

To follow up on a report from earlier this week about public restrooms in Boston in which five of six automated city toilets were out of order, WGBH's Edgar B. Herwick III caught up with Peter O'Sullivan, who runs the Boston's Coordinated Street Furniture Program. The program is responsible for many of the information kiosks and bus shelters you see around the city, as well as the city's eight automated public toilets.

[@KevinSun242]

Started school in Boston in 2014. To date, the two near the Aquarium have not worked at all. The one at city hall plaza is disgusting and barely works, while there's free public bathrooms right across the street at Quincy market that are open longer. These public bathrooms also aren't open past 6PM. Cambridge has 24/7 free bathrooms in Central square and Harvard square in the Portland loos.

[@johnocallaghan9252]

I worked for J C Decaux for 18 years repairing there toilets.And yes there toilets do break down a lot and this report sounds correct to me.

[@oggyreidmore]

Wait...the city makes $16 MILLION from 8 public toilets? That's $2 million each!! And they can't hire 4 maintenance workers that handle two toilets each and pay them $60K/yr to maintain/clean them? They'd still make $1.75 Million in revenue and the toilets would work perfectly. These seems like a scam.

[@frankclarke6651]

Paying to have a **** or **** in a toilet. Total rip off👎👎👎

[@amanitacastanea2435]

But privatisation makes everything better, right? Let the free market handle it.