IT IS RM4.8mil down the toilet, literally. Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has demolished 12 of the Automatic Street Toilets (AST) built at a cost of RM400,000 each. Reason given was that they were “uneconomical to manage.”
While the local authority’s intention to build 20 ultra-modern public toilets in 2006 all over the capital city was good, the high cost of maintaining them was draining their coffers.
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