Kept underground during the day and exposed via a remote by
night for the men at nite. 
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In an effort to handle its nighttime public urination problem,
Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is considering
installing urinals that disappear below street level during the
day. Unlike the automated, self-cleaning toilets planned for
Toronto and Vancouver, which are enclosed booths with doors that
that automatically open after a set time period, the Urilift system
is a two-meter high stainless steel cylinder with three alcoves,
each with a urinal, and no doors.
By day, the Urilift is lowered below street level for a nice clean
look. Then at night, an operator comes by with a remote and the
Urilift hydraulically lifts to sidewalk level in about two minutes.
Then the unit is ready to serve all the nighttime party animals who
dont mind peeing in a very exposed public urinal.
Because there are no doors, there is little danger of any
unauthorized or illegal activities. San Francisco and Seattles
auto-toilets have been derided as dens for drug dealers and
prostitutes. In addition, the presence of an attendant nearby to
lower the system in the morning means its unlikely a drunken
reveler who slumps over the Urilift will wake up under the
street.
The urinals are designed exclusively for men, and more
specifically, for male drinkers. The $75,000 system has
been installed across the Netherlands, and have spread to London
and Belfast, but Victoria will be the first North American city to
try them out.
