Re:Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe
by saturn8601 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @11:39AM
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This is anecdotal but in my experience the restrooms still suck and are poorly maintained (This was my experience in Hamburg and Amsterdam in 2023). What is even worse is that there seems to be a little recourse to correct it in the short term. There isn't a "Free market" of toilet companies because the same firm seems to capture all the toilets in a given area. So you have the worst of all worlds, you have to pay to use a poorly maintained restroom and there is little you can do about it...at least as a traveler not familiar with the local customs. Maybe locals can enact some improvement.
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Re:Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe
by thwarted on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:29PM
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Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
When it comes to restrooms, some people can not help not help themselves and leave it in a significantly worse state, or use it for other purposes (like drug use). Maintaining restrooms is, on average, thankless responsibility, even though people would be thankful to find one.
Re:Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe
by saturn8601 on Monday July 22, 2024 @09:14PM
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Thats fine but if you are paying to have the restrooms maintained then the expectation should be different. Don't excuse a private company charging money to patrons and then providing poor service. If I want bad restrooms, I can have the government maintain it like in many places in the US.