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Porta-Potty Prince of NY: Mamdani Promises Free 'Modular Bathrooms' and What Could POSSIBLY Go Wrong?

Ahh, the glories of Communism! Where you will always have a place to poop! 

Also, what is with his soaring rhetoric here? He's talking about Porta-Potties. Just say that. 

He can't say that, though, because everyone knows that Porta-Potties are filthy and no one wants them in their neighborhood. So he tries to recast them as some sort of cool, sophisticated European feature like 'modular public bathroom.' 

And then there’s this:

Of course, there is also the problem of how Mamdani is going to pay for the ongoing security, maintenance, and upkeep of his free, public outhouses. He almost certainly has no plan for that, so the inevitable result will be ... well, inevitable. 

San Francisco’s $1.7 million toilet experiment is going to look cheap in comparison.


AI Overview

Erecting and maintaining public toilets in San Francisco has seen extreme costs, from a controversial $1.7 million initial estimate (reduced to $200k after donations for one unit) to high annual maintenance around $350,000 per unit for 24/7 monitored facilities, while similar facilities in other cities can cost

$80k-$500k to build, highlighting SF's significant cost challenges, often attributed to labor, regulations, and complex site needs. 

San Francisco Costs

  • Construction (High-Profile Example): A single, self-cleaning, prefabricated unit in Noe Valley had a widely criticized initial estimate of $1.7 million, though it ultimately opened for around $200,000 after donations of materials and labor, according to NBC Bay Area and Wikipedia. [It cost the city less; the cost itself remained the same, but donations took a load off the city’s budget — Ed]

  • Construction (Other Units): More standard, self-contained units (like Portland Loo style) have been installed for costs under $300,000, notes Wikipedia.

  • Maintenance: 24/7 monitored facilities, including security and supplies, cost approximately $350,000 per unit annually, a significant operational expense, reports the Hoover Institution.

Our neighboring communist’s optimism about maintaining these shitholes may be based on the Ladies of Greenwich Invisibles’ promise to show up to clean them every Sunday after Christ Church Episcopal’s service lets out, but sad experience with these kind of noble enterprises has shown that volunteers’ enthusiasm dribbles away after a short time, often after just the first foray into manual labor in their life. That problem could be overcome the same way their sisters on the Upper East Side satisfy their work commitment at their local food co-op — send their maids – but what if Consuela is deported? It’s no wonder the AWFLS are so determined to abolish ICE.

Even remote cities in the frozen north have discovered that Porta-Potties breed infection and used needles and do nothing to solve the quandary of no place to take a dump — no one in his right mind would dare to enter one. Here’s a news story about Bangor, Maine’s experience. As of this writing, Bangor has pulled its toilets off the streets and is thinking about what to do next.