Building on the success of the city's first street urinal, city staff are recommending installing two more places to go for people who gotta go. "We've had great success with our one permanent urinal we've put downtown," Mayor Dean Fortin said. And ladies, city staff are recommending that at least one of the two new pissoirs be modified for use by women. Locations for the new urinals have yet to be chosen.
Costing about $75,000, the Pandora urinal is enclosed by a curve of green steel poles and is open at the top. Cleaning costs are about $40 a day. The poles provide some privacy, but it's possible to see if someone is inside. There is no gate. While city staff have concerns about tinkering with the design, they say it may be able to modify the receptacle inside and add a gate on the outside to allow use by women, who say they won't use it unless they are provided more privacy. "We do have to reflect the comments of so many women, which was either you put a gate on it or I'm not going to use it," Fortin said.
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