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If you read the article, the main reason why it cost so much is not because of the cost of the toilet and the installation per-se, but because there is many, ma
by maeln 4y ago
If you read the article, the main reason why it cost so much is not because of the cost of the toilet and the installation per-se, but because there is many, many red tape around doing anything in SF.
So it is not necessarily a "grift" ( although many are profiting from it and are probably more than happy about the situation being the way it is ) but the result of decades of laws to regulate public work and spending ( ironically ).
- renlo 4y ago> although many are profiting from it and are probably more than happy about the situation being the way it is This is the "grift" part of it; those "many [...] profiting from it" are often times friends or acquaintances of the officials regulating them
- maeln 4y agoYes, I am aware, but the fact is those laws are put in place (and could be removed) by elected officials. If the resident of SF where so angry about the situation, they could vote against it.
- ryandrake 4y agoI’d love to see an itemized break down of “red tape” that actually adds up to $1.7M. We too often accept officials obfuscating costs on these projects into opaque buckets like “studies” and “reviews”. “We’ll of course it’s expensive! It all goes to uh… RED TAPE! Yea that’s where it goes obviously!”
- acchow 4y ago> but because there is many, many red tape around doing anything in SF. Right, the red tape still exists to this day to allow for grifters to come in who help "expedite" the process for a fee. So it's really the same thing.