DBKL tears down automated street toilets due to high cost of maintenance

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.