It was featured on the news recently (kind of like a “Fleecing of America” local-style): a bathroom in a city park here is going to cost $1.1 million. (Oh excuse me, I believe the term used was “comfort station.”) And no, the toilets aren’t made of gold. It’s a simple concrete structure with the basics. It’s not even bug-proof as it doesn’t have screens. Three words for you: Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure! It’s just down the street from us, and we drive by it each time we hit the commissary. Original estimates and contracts were over $700K, but the price has now jumped because evidently someone didn’t factor in the cost of connecting the pipes. They need to dig a big ditch from one end of the park where this stands, to the other end where there is another bathroom. For a part of the $300K-plus oversight pie, I think I want to try my hand at ditch digging! Seriously, I’ll rent a CAT and plow through whatever you want me to for a couple of days. Or just take a fat paycheck for repainting it, for as you might be able to see, it has been tagged and will need a good cleaning when it’s finally complete.
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