Economy
The Bay Area Takes the Fight to Elevator Urinators
BART is installing a new kind of anti-pee floor coating, as well as a “bacteria-eating enzyme misting system.”
Like many cities, San Francisco has a public pissing problem, which it’s tried to combat with municipally staffed pop-up toilets, an open-air pissoir in a park, and a sneaky kind of paint that splashes back the streams of free-range urinators.
The battle seems unending, though, with the latest news that the region’s BART system is spending a large chunk of cash to guard its elevators against fluid discharges. The problem is loose liquids can drip into elevator shafts, mucking up the mechanics and prompting pricey repairs. The East Bay Times reports: