In moments of desperation,I can turn on the toilet charm and convince a cafe owner to let me use their facilities. Not everyone is so luckyWe’ve all been there. You’re far absent from home and your bladder is being squeezed like a ketchup bottle and youre desperately trying to preserve the lid on. You clench, but somehow that just makes the squeezy feeling worse. whether you’re lucky, or you find a restaurant to slip into. whether you’re unlucky,you cessation up as one of the 94150 court summonses for public urination that were handed out in New York between January 2011 and July 2014.
It’s easy to read that statistic and deem “damn right!” – particularly whether you don’t know that just three public toilets have been installed in New York City since 2008. Three new public toilets in a city of 8 million people (not counting tourists, who have bladders and bowels too). Three new public toilets to supplement the decrepit existing ones in public parks. Some of those park toilets are now out of service, or many are closed for part of the year and only one in five have wheelchair access. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com