In the Works - Community Newsletter In the Works November 2019 | Page 13

In total, San Francisco Public Works
recorded 10,518 nighttime uses of the
restrooms, or roughly 3,200 uses per
month.
What had been a three-month
pilot will run through June 2020,
the end of the fiscal year, allowing
City leaders to evaluate the
potential to continue or expand
the program in the upcoming
City budget. The 22 other Pit
Stops in the program are open
between seven and 13 hours a
day, depending on location. workforce development partner,
Urban Alchemy, staffs all but
one of the Pit Stops; the Lower
Polk Community Benefit District
staffs the other. Public Works
manages the program.
The three 24-hour facilities
are located at Sixth and Jessie
streets in SoMa, Market and
Castro streets in the Castro, and
Eddy and Jones streets in the
Tenderloin. Public Works began the Pit Stop
program five years ago, starting
with three locations in the
Tenderloin. It now operates at 25
locations in 13 neighborhoods.
Collectively, the staffed
bathrooms have logged more
than 1.6 million collective uses
since the program's inception.
Preliminary results from the pilot
program at the 24-hour Pit Stops
show that roughly 25 percent
of all flushes at the overnight
locations are happening between
11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
In total, San Francisco Public
Works recorded 10,518 nighttime
uses of the restrooms, or
roughly 3,200 uses per month.
During that time, the volume of
steam cleaning requests in the
surrounding quarter mile went
down at all three locations.
Instead of the one staffer assigned
to each Pit Stop during the
daytime and evening hours, two
attendants are on duty during
the late-night hours for safety
considerations. A nonprofit
The initial pilot cost $299,594 to
operate; the extension will cost a
projected $580,315 more.