My data source is weak, but believable. But weak. I’m not going to say who it was, but a “relevant person.” I don’t want to get them in trouble. It was one of the five or six people on land on Friday night (Jan. 22) at the Edmonds/Kingston ferry dock.
I used the men’s bathroom at the Edmonds/Kingston ferry dock staging area Friday night. The urinal was overflowing with urine, flooding the men’s bathroom, pouring out. I told the nearest employee I could find, so s/he could notify those in charge of fixing such things. I did not finish my sentence before s/he said, “Been that way for two weeks. City of Edmonds says it is the Department of Transportation, Department of Transportation says it is city of Edmonds.”
And while they battle over such pettiness, male citizens walk on a urine-flooded floor.
Can governmental bodies get any more immature than this? What is this, a $100 fix? $500? $5,000? That is going to break some government’s budget back? Is there no one in either governmental “block” capable of saying, “let’s fix the bathroom now — because it is insane to have our citizens walking in urine — and affix financial responsibility later, probably through the courts and millions of dollars of attorney fees. …”
Or just cough up the $100 or $500 and call it square.
Paul C. Daley
Sequim
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