Public restrooms, particularly in high traffic areas, can present a convincing argument for holding it in until you get home.

So visitors to Elmhurst Park, a converted camping site in Queen's, New York, can now rest assured that they're heeding the call of nature in grand style.

As Fox News reports, the park recently installed a brand new brick-walled service station with three stalls for women and a pair of urinals plus one stall for men. While there are no smaller facilities specifically for children, the restrooms have one handicapped-accessible stall and a diaper-changing table in both sections.

But the facility's $2.3 million price tag has left some gasping for air.

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"This breaks all the rules of form follows function," Robert Holden of the Juniper Park Civic Association, told the New York Daily News. "There's an obscene amount of wasted space here. Shouldn't this money go to pay for more cops or for more parks maintenance?"

Holden added that the use of space also left much to be desired, as far more stalls could have been constructed with a more efficient blueprint.

A spokesperson from the Parks Department responded to the criticism, telling Fox News that the need for more durable, and thus more expensive materials, like thicker metal doors and steel piping, was necessary to accommodate the facility's projected volume.

The spokesperson added that the winning bid was actually the second lowest in price among the 14 bids received.

At least one private contractor thinks the department is full of crap, telling Fox the facility could have easily been built for under $500,000.

Although, in fairness to the Parks Department, anyone who's ever had renovations done on their home knows that the original quoted price often goes straight down the crapper once the work actually starts.

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