“Boston is no stranger to miraculous feats of engineering. The city has seen 3 miles of highway buried beneath downtown, the world’s longest one-way tunnel extended into the Harbor, and the opening of a quarter-mile-long cable-stayed bridge gracefully spanning the Charles River. Now, the city is preparing for the latest addition to its pantheon of construction marvels, the opening on the waterfront of a coin-operated toilet that took more than two years and $300,000 to bring from drawing board to reality. And it still hasn’t had its first flush. ‘This was the perfect storm,’ said Peter O’Sullivan, the city’s director of street furniture, who is in charge of sidewalk restrooms, kiosks, bus shelters, and the like. ‘There were more complications on this one than on any toilet we’ve worked on.’” (06/07/09)