My hometown of Wichita, Kansas recently installed two fully plumbed public restrooms in our downtown core and it was, predictably, met with incensed rage online

My hometown of Wichita, Kansas recently installed two fully plumbed public restrooms in our downtown core and it was, predictably, met with incensed rage online at the cost of durable vandal-proof public utilities and tearing up concrete to run sewer and water lines to them, and used as an example of "government waste on stupid bathrooms", similar to a project starting next week that cuts down one of our asinine five-lane highway-sized surface streets to a more reasonable 3 lanes as a traffic calming measure, to a similarly predictable chorus of politically charged pejoratives and entitlement. It's such a shame that somewhat objective, proven improvements to the general quality of life in an urban area are so quickly dismissed by selfish entitled idiots and used as political leverage by politicians because it's "Big Government".