Loo-dicrous: San Franciscans flushed with anger over $1.7m public toilet

State to withhold funds for planned bathroom until city finds a way to use public money more efficiently'

Controversy is swirling around a proposed public lavatory in San Francisco after a city newspaper exposed the project's eye-watering price tag of $1.7m.

That sum would have covered a 150-sq-ft restroom with just one toilet. The pricey plans were moving ahead until the San Francisco Chronicle lifted the lid on how much taxpayer money would go down the drain, prompting backlash and ridicule.