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I find it funny that the sign for the restrooms at the [Charlottesville] Downtown Transit Station is the same size as the sign which announces the purpose of the entire building. I mean, the little male and female icons do the trick just fine. That planning committee needs to tighten up!
13 June 2007
Public transit . . . and restrooms.
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as a New Yorker and aspiring "planner", I am actually thrilled to see gigantic signs advertising public restrooms
Me too, but the point is well taken. Do we accord the same value to the function of each sign, or is that value judged apart from the size.
I am more concerned with the placement of the restrooms. What happens when someone blows one of those toilets up and doesn't bother to plunge. Train station feces flood, that's what.
My main complaint is that both signs are visible, together from the bridge -- and the restroom sign appears above the transit sign, ultimately trumping it. If you are down on Water St, you can't see the restrooms, or its sign, on the upper part. When you are near the restrooms (unless you hang over the wall), you can't see the other sign. Great. I just wish they had considered the bridge view before forging identical signs.
And Pete, you are exactly right: I cannot wait 'til some kid throws a smoke bomb down a commode (does anybody remember that episode of The Wonder Years at the museum??? Maybe it wasn't a smoke bomb . . .). That would be funny.
i blame the architect
I think you all have it backwards. The building is actually a large public restroom that happens to have trains pass through from time to time.
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