Where can people go when park bathroom is closed? | Letter to the editor

For several years in the busiest section of the finest park in Renton, the only bathroom is securely closed, all the time year around? Mothers with small children, seniors who rarely have the time to go look for another toilet, all the dozens of children at the skateboard park, right beside this closed stone structure. On any warm sunny day there easily can be hundreds of people in that corner of the Liberty Park.

April 19, 2012 5:44 pm

For several years in the busiest section of the finest park in Renton, the only bathroom is securely closed, all the time year around?

Mothers with small children, seniors who rarely have the time to go look for another toilet, all the dozens of children at the skateboard park, right beside this closed stone structure. On any warm sunny day there easily can be hundreds of people in that corner of the Liberty Park.

On one of my recent dog-walking forays there was a softball game going on and at least 20 skateboarders, a few boys at the basketball court

mothers with young children at the kiddie swings all this surrounding this permanently closed facility.

We are being ill served by our Parks Department and our City Hall who allow this to continue for at least three years now.  I wonder if any of the policemen who were recently investigating the library vandalism might have liked to use this closed facility.  I have the barber shop just across the street and have allowed many youngsters from the skateboard park to use my toilet, when I’m open. Where do they go when I’m closed?

Andrew Eckert

Renton