You are really going hard in defense of the city's obvious, well-documented, problems with bureaucracy.

It's very simple. NYC has more barriers than any of the other places this dude did 180 toilet builds. 5 toilets is peanuts, but I assure you, this same stupidity and these same barriers exist when we want to do such things as extend the 2nd Ave line and such.

> This anecdote doesn't mean anything unless they specify that the agency managing and buying the Loos made the call.

This "anecdote" - some would call it an interview - shows that the city is exceedingly dumb.