All jokes aside, I know I would definitely use this service. I have bathroom issues all the time. Just recently I was in central london on a busy saturday night and finding a toilet was seriously hard work. Macdonalds had long queues for toilets, so did many other retail outlets and many tube stations dont have toilets. I know residential areas are a little further out from the city, but i'm sure people could get cre…
If you're in London, just walk into the nearest pub and use the toilet there. There there will most certainly be a nearby pub.
This is good news for trans and gender-ambiguous people if you could make sure it marks (and can be searched for) the availability of gender neutral facilities where they won't get hassle.
There's also http://www.safe2pee.org (now potentially defunct) and http://www.refugerestrooms.org/
There is yeah, but a self funding system is likely to get bigger and be less vulnerable to being shut down.
Presumably, when making consistent money from a toilet, more resources can be allocated to keeping it clean and presentable. Possibly cleaned every few minutes. That would ba a horrible job.
I'd just lock the front door when they come in to use the restroom, inspect the toilet after they are done, and unlock it only after it's clean. Simple as that.
Who cares about legality, what a creepy awkward thing to do.
Many moons ago in France I remember there being these public restrooms in parks that cost like $.25 to use, but then washed themselves before you got in/after. Could that be the next phone booth style trend? I would happily pay $.50-1 to know its a clean bathroom that is disinfected. On a busy new york street with tons of foot traffic at $.50 the machine could easily generate $5-10k/day gross.
>>>On a busy new york street with tons of foot traffic at $.50 the machine could easily generate $5-10k/day gros I think you're an order of magnitude too high on that estimate. If a bathroom was used for 45 seconds, cleaned for 15, and then immediately back in use every minute of the day (which is probably a crazy estimate), it would generate $30 an hour, or $720 a day.
eh, you're probably right. I was thinking a street like 5th ave which has hundred thousand people walking up it every day.
Yeah, this drives me crazy. At King's Cross in London (which I'm at at least once a week) it's 30p - if I have cash it's most likely notes not change, so even though they have machines to give change I don't really want to spend the rest of the day with £9.70 or £19.70 in cash. Would be even worse abroad (though can't think of a time I've run into it), as apart from places where cards aren't enough (of the places I g…
At King's Cross in London (which I'm at at least once a week) it's 30p And free across the road at St Pancras... Tho' in all stations it should be free if you have a ticket/travelcard/oyster/whatever.
Most of the times I need it I have maybe 10 minutes before my train leaves London, it's evening or late at night, so my options are to find the change or hold it until a train comes (and hope that it actually has toilets on... which not all trains on my route do). Going to St. Pancras would be fine but would mean getting the next train up to an hour later.