Sep 29 2007
MSP airport gets new stall dividers
Airport to Overhaul Men’s Room Stalls
Dividers intended to make soliciting sex much more difficult will be added to stalls in two men’s rooms at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
The metal dividers will fall two or three inches above the floor, an airport spokesman, Patrick Hogan, said Friday. Stall partitions are now a foot off the floor.
The two restrooms include the one where Senator Larry E. Craig, Republican of Idaho, was arrested in a sex sting in June. Those two sites have elicited the most complaints regarding sexual activity, Mr. Hogan said.
It will cost about $25,000 to buy and install the dividers, he said, calling that “a drop in the bucket†compared with the expense of prosecuting Mr. Craig on a disorderly conduct charge and handling the 40 arrests made in sexual solicitation cases since May.
Send the bill to Senator Larry Craig, Right Side of the Aisle, Washington, D.C.
