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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Matthew Cantor

Loo-dicrous: San Franciscans flushed with anger over $1.7m public toilet

woman crosses street in Noe Valley
The toilet was planned for the town square in the city’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP

Controversy is swirling around a proposed public lavatory in San Francisco after a city newspaper exposed the project’s eye-watering price tag of $1.7m.

That sum would have covered a 150-sq-ft restroom with just one toilet. The pricey plans were moving ahead until the San Francisco Chronicle lifted the lid on how much taxpayer money would go down the drain, prompting backlash and ridicule.

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