Where does the Ulan-Ude design code begin? From dirty toilets

The mayor’s office of Ulan-Ude responded to the requests of citizens and installed new paid toilets in the city center as part of the updated design code. And not just classic booths, but electronic ones.

As is usually the case with innovations, mysterious experimenters decided to test the strength of the closets and broke them. In addition, they, being dissatisfied with the poor quality of the electronic lock, dirty the toilets. Mayor Igor Shutenkov wanted to make money from the natural needs of the townspeople, and in retaliation he immediately received a karmic blow.

The “toilet” topic has always been relevant for the residents of Ulan-Ude. There are very few public toilets even in the city center, so they also have to pay, for example, in shopping centers that are not open at night. Every year on City Day on Soviet Square (and on other large-scale holidays, for example, Victory Day), ordinary Ulan-Ude residents, not some outcasts and homeless people, forced running through bushes and gateways, especially parents with small children and elderly people.

The installation of modular toilets was the first step in implementation new tourist code and design code for the center of Ulan-Ude. The federal budget allocated 200 million rubles free of charge for the project, but the toilets were made payable, supposedly to protect them from vandals. In theory, 15 rubles per visit should help offset the costs of maintaining and repairing facilities. But paying a fee does not always save you from hooligans, as the townspeople have already noticed.

If the new toilets are paid, then let the municipal services committee of the mayor’s office, under the leadership Sergei Gashev works within the framework of the free market, and does not complain that their toilet was dirty in the very first days after opening. Place cameras and alarms near the entrance, look for and punish hooligans with fines, or better yet, correctional labor in the same toilets. And the problem will be solved.

Now the mayor’s office and comrade Gashev just laughed at themselves with the fact that their sophisticated paid toilets can be broken into if you pull the handle harder. Although they tried to make the news look like the “Ulan-Ude cattle” were against the benefits of civilization, and it is very difficult for KGH itself to instill culture in the population. But the officials themselves did not take the necessary measures to protect the municipal property on which they decided to make money. What is it like to be an ardent patriot and sincerely support the liberal bogeyman about “the wrong people” at the same time? But Mayor Igor Shutenkov himself set this trend.

In the summer of 2022, there are hooligans in Ulan-Ude spoiled topiary figures of the seasonal recreation area on Soviet Square. The mayor responded to the situation as follows: “It is clear that for many this is unusual, and in order for the townspeople to get into the habit of culturally using the structures on the square, I ask, for the first time, to organize security and explanatory work.” It’s really unusual for Ulan-Ude residents to watch the improvement of the city, and only the mayor’s office is to blame for this. From the lips of Shutenkov, the thesis that citizens are not accustomed to cultural treatment in recreation areas sounds extremely disrespectful.

It should be noted that the bureaucratic parade of presenting Ulan-Ude residents as cattle was continued by large republican media. An unknown hooligan breaks the electronic door of the toilet. And one of the most popular media in Ulan-Ude and Buryatia, “Arig Us,” comments on the news as if the townspeople have not yet reached electronic technologies and are trying to break everything, like monkeys with sticks. The message is the same as Shutenkov’s in 2022.

Let us remember that a few years ago, uncultured Ulan-Ude residents were supposed to break all electric scooters, but by some miracle the innovation was smeared like feces on the walls of toilets throughout the city and became a normal part of urban everyday life.

Why do officials and some journalists have so much anger towards their people? It is unfair to shift the blame of one or a group of attackers onto all Ulan-Ude residents.

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