London's Levitating Lavatories
4 November 2002 - 6:00am
While New York struggles with new toilet proposals, London's City of Westminster is using a novel solution
"The first of the two-metre high, stainless steel telescopic toilets goes live today in Villiers Street, near Embankment tube station - an area that local councillors believe is a notorious 'wet spot'."
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New zip code for London: WC2
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The Guardian Unlimited, October 10, 2005
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