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Hmm? I just spent the evening in Ballard (tons of homeless people sleeping on the street! Really surprising, Market Street wasn't like this 3 years ago), yet no
by metildaa 8y ago
Hmm? I just spent the evening in Ballard (tons of homeless people sleeping on the street! Really surprising, Market Street wasn't like this 3 years ago), yet none of the businesses I visited had locked or door coded bathrooms.
Same in Fremont, the coffee shops & restaraunts don't generally restrict access to the bathrooms in any noteworthy way, though some have a sign stating use should be limited to a few minutes.
Georgetown, Central District & Madison Park were also pretty similar last I checked, you'd be hard pressed to find bathrooms with codes on them.
- c22 8y agoI've lived in Seattle my whole life and the only bathrooms with codes I can think of off the top of my head are at Uwajimaya and Starbucks. The Thai place across from the restrooms at Uwajimaya has the code prominently displayed on a cardboard sign and we all know the new policy at Starbucks. Oh, the sketchy McDonalds on 3rd makes an employee buzz you in, but the other McDonalds a few blocks away has open restrooms. Dunno where gp is hanging out. Also I have yet to see human excrement in the street, though I hear this is a big problem in SF.
- metildaa 8y agoOP is likely in a very small bubble (betting SLU or the south end of Downtown). 3rd ave McDonald's is a front for something IMO, perhaps the open air drug slinging that happens on that block? Its funny that 2 blocks away there is a much less sketchy McDonald's, seems like those franchises are way too close together. Hopefully we don't end up with plentiful open defecation like SoCal. I'd take setting up public restrooms (that might become BJ shacks at times) over a public health crisis.