Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Saturday, November 26, 2005

An idea for opening at least some of WMATA's subway station restrooms--bathroom attendants

From the Chicago Sun-Times article, "Restrooms worth a mint at Metra stop":

Once an unfinished basement of a train station, Metra's made-over Randolph Street stop just got a bit bourgeois -- at least in the bathrooms. That's where bow-tie wearing attendants greet travelers with all the courtesy of their counterparts tending to restrooms in upscale eateries and hip nightspots. The station's bathroom butlers aren't dolling out cigarettes, hot towels and cologne, but riders are offered a mint as a sort of public-toilet parting gift.
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A couple subway stations might have the volume able to support restroom attendants, which would allow the restrooms to be opened to the public.

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