When will the Blue Cities learn?

Flush with a new contract, more Portland Loos are coming

City will pay about $56,000 apiece for the new ones, much less than the prototype

Fleeced and flushed: the public toilet fiasco

Four years and $5 million later, the Seattle City Council hits the flush button on high-tech toilets that never proved their worth.

It didn’t make sense back in 2004 when the Seattle City Council purchased five automated public toilets for $1 million a piece. Now, putting the lot up for sale on eBay accomplishes little more than reminding taxpayers how they were fleeced.