An architect in Winnipeg took it upon himself to install a pair of port-a-potties around the corner from his office.
Wins Bridgman claims the strong smell of urine emanating from the corner of Higgins Avenue and Main Street where he recently moved his firm was too powerful to ignore.
He says the portable toilets have worked like a charm and that the cost of$700 to rent the two portable loos for three months is well worth it.
We asked if you thought cities should install more public toilets.
Here's what you had to say:
"Of couse the answer is a loud YES!!!!!! When I was a child back in the 60's every park had free washrooms. They should never have been removed in the first place bring them back." JCM, Toronto
"Definitely. When you don't offer the basic need of a toilet, you turn your whole city into a toilet." Caitlin, Winnipeg
"Recently I was in a new town and walking from my business conference back to my hotel though a mostly residential area. Shouldn't have had that bottle of water during the meetings because I really had to go. The only private place I could find was behind some lumber at a construction site. I'm not homeless, and I am probably considered upper-middle class, but when you gotta go, you gotta go. Having a public facility nearby would have been as asset." Sam
"Of course we should have free washrooms not just for street people but for everyone.
"It is just nasty not to and kudos to Mr.Bridgman for doing what the city could not seem to get around to doing." Gaynor Henry
What do you think?
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