How the drought has affected San Francisco's devastating lack of public restrooms - Los Angeles Times
There are a lot of people whose lives have been adversely affected by the unrestricted flow of urine on the streets of San Francisco. But few people have come close to death-by-urine the way Luis Gomez did. Gomez, 40, is a barber. On a Sunday earlier this month, while the BART system was down for maintenance, Gomez drove his 1994 Honda Accord into the city. Late in the day, he was in the Honda, heading home. As Gomez waited for the light to change at Taylor and Pine streets, two blocks from the Fairmont Hotel, he heard a loud crack. "Then," he said, "the windshield broke all over us. ". A three-story metal light pole, with the street sign attached, had fallen across his hood. And here's why the story made news far beyond San Francisco: Officials speculated that urine, both human and canine, had contributed to corrosion at the base of the metal pole. Something new to worry about: Urination devastation. Merchants in San Francisco, it would seem, have stopped washing down their streets. "It's not very pleasant," said Sergio Calle, a 25-year old attorney from. Source: www.latimes.com
