They are that bad the matter has been raised in the House of Commons, and it doesn't even mention the insides!
We used to do that many years ago, when travelling to/from football. One particular stop was Moreton-in-Marsh,when travelling the Fosse Way. Eventually the pub landlord refused to let us in to use the toilets...even if a couple of us went to purchase a drink or crisps etc.
I'm 72 and required urgent catherisation last year when the drug prescribed for my urinary problems had unexpected side effects causing me to be literally unable to pee for several hours - I'd never known discomfort like it at that point, and was writhing in my hospital cubicle waiting for the one doctor to fit me into his other duties. Won't go into all the ins and outs of it, but the relief of catherisation quickly became jaded within days, and after three different catheters (i.e. new fittings, not the bags) and two urine infections I finally made the decision when having the final one removed in Urgent Care at 4 a.m. by a nurse to take my chances catheter-free, which has been about four months now. Unfortunately, continence remains a major problem and, sparing you the details, peeing in the bushes is not really an option, and into a bottle a physical impossibility i.e. I need a loo with a seat, and preferably a disabled one. The urinary nurse specialist who is one of the country's most knowledgeable and regularly lectures GPs etc wrote to a surgeon six months ago requesting him to see me as an urgent case, saying it would probably help it might be an 'interesting' one from his point of view because of my other conditions, but I'd not heard anything before normal life went on hold. So, catherisation possibly great, even vital, as a short-term objective, but long-term?....
Haha, that is absolutely ridiculous. They could just charge £1 for use of the toilet and have done with it!!
It was the traditional coin-operated turnstile entrance to public toilets (not private toilets or ones on railway premises) that was banned in 1963, on the basis that it prevented folk with prams, or with little body strength such as children (to push through the turnstiles) from using the facilities. Apparently, this piece of legislation effectively helped put a traditional turnstile manufacturer in the Manchester area (Ellison's) out of business.
There's no real reason to take them out of local council control. The reason they've become so inadequate in the last few years is that they largely aren't a service which councils have to provide, and when budgets are cut year on year in the way that they are being those kinds of services are the ones that legally have to lose out. If you strengthened council budgets and made toilet provision mandatory they would likely do a better job of managing them than Scottish Water, who have fewer staff on the ground locally, and minimal experience at facilities management generally.
Agreed. I'm quite content for councils to keep their existing functions, but make sure that toilet provision is properly funded and classed as an essential service that cannot be cut in order to save on the annual budget. I wouldn't want to pass the day-to-day management to a large centralised body like Scottish Water, although perhaps it should be funded centrally.
Since lock-down and with most public loos shut , I've often wondered where are people "going" when they go to the beach etc. Thought of the day.
According to this BBC report, the answer is "in just about anything they can find".
