Spending a penny: Uproar over LA plan for $1 mn toilet

Plans for a $1 million public toilet are raising a stink in Los Angeles, where locals say the cash-strapped city is flushing money down the drain.

Officials last year approved a scheme to build a bathroom with two stalls at the entrance to the city’s popular Runyon Canyon hiking trail at a cost of $960,000.

But people living nearby say the eye-watering price tag seems almost corrupt in a city that had to slash its fire department budget last year…

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