{"id":399304,"date":"2026-07-15T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399304\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:09:08","slug":"city-should-use-alley-upgrade-funds-to-open-bathroooms-instead-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399304\/","title":{"rendered":"City should use alley upgrade funds to open bathroooms instead \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cSan Diego spending $2.2M to upgrade alley near Santa Fe Depot\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/08\/san-diego-spending-2-2m-to-upgrade-alley-near-santa-fe-depot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 8<\/a>): So now our mayor and City Council are spending $2.2 million on \u201cimproving a pedestrian passageway\u201d downtown when about one-fourth of that amount would open the 13 Mission Bay restrooms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/10\/petulant-city-closes-mission-bay-bathrooms-to-punish-tax-weary-residents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the short-sighted folks at City Hall are going to find that it is far less expensive to have open restrooms than to do cleanup when people do not have restrooms!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maggie Conway, San Diego<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cSan Diego spending $2.2M to upgrade alley near Santa Fe Depot\u201d (July 8): So now our mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-399304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}