The real reason Rubber-stamp Raman wants more wildly expensive public toilets

Nithya Raman’s asking for (toilet) trouble.The socialist city councilwoman, who’s running to “fail up” to the mayor’s office, has proposed a new plan that has the potential to incur new, hampering costs on a city already suffering from a $1 billion budget deficit. Among the latest: plans for a nebulous network of public restrooms.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story The city has to be make sure if they are spending money on toilets, it is not flushing millions of taxpayers’ dollars down the toilet — like the city previously did in a similar project in Runyon Canyon.Raman introduced a motion Wednesday to add bathroom stalls across the city, despite LA’s failure to maintain the public restrooms it already has.She wants city staff to spend a couple of months producing suggestions on where such loos would go and how the city would pay for them.Public toilets are a mainstay across advanced countries in Europe.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the desire to provide the public with a place to relieve themselves.California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Home delivery: Sign up here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!The problem is the unknown (but judging from New York City’s experience, likely exorbitant) cost of implementation, the sustained maintenance required to keep them clean and public safety enforcement to prevent them from becoming drug dens. Therein lies the rub.Los Angeles, which burns up to a billion tax dollars a year on its homeless Dumpster fire, is allegedly too broke to properly fund public safety: The city’s police and fire depa...