Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LOS ANGELES, May 3 (UPI) -- Luxurious pay toilets installed on the streets of Los Angeles have run into a bit of a snag -- only one of the seven automated business-stations works. The automated toilets, modeled after those found on the stylish streets of Paris and New York, offer their services to passersby with bodily functions to complete for the low cost of 25 cents. However, since Los Angeles installed seven prototypes of the posh potties 2 1/2 years ago, only one of the toilets is still in working condition, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Advertisement The city plans to install as many as 150 of the luxury toilets at locations across the city but critics question the city's competence on the issue, given the current state of the prototypes. "If we want to clean up the smells and sights of our streets, we have to be able to offer these facilities," said Eric Richardson, a Los Angeles neighborhood council member and blogger of "Toilet Watch," a blog that keeps track of news about the non-functioning lavatories.
