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Toilet facilities and transit was DC Metro Interconnects
John R Cambron * writes:
If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to make every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far more common than wheelchairs or blindness? If you build restrooms and open them to all, some one has to be paid to keep them clean. WMATA is in the business of moving commuters not facilitating commuters. BART seems to be able to do it. On systems that have trips that can last over an hour, this is a much appreciated amenity. I know I appreciated them when I used BART. In general transit seems to be a user surly enterprise with operations like New Jersey Transit and Albany Transit lacking system timetables and system maps, most systems requiring exact change and lacking washroom facilities or the ease of exit and re-entry without paying a fare penalty if the need for a rest room is urgent. WMATA decided early on that the cost of maintenance and vandalism was to high a price to pay to provide public facilities. That is why the restrooms in stations are not directly accessible to the public. Later the policy on access was changed to give desecration to the station manager. We are now back to where we started because of security. Without the locked dooors, there's less of a security hazard. http://www.urinal.net/charing_cross_new/ http://www.urinal.net/charing_cross/ http://www.urinal.net/manila/ http://www.urinal.net/stadhouders_kade/ |
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Toilet facilities and transit was DC Metro Interconnects
Yeoh Yiu wrote: John R Cambron * writes: If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to make every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far more common than wheelchairs or blindness? If you build restrooms and open them to all, some one has to be paid to keep them clean. WMATA is in the business of moving commuters not facilitating commuters. BART seems to be able to do it. On systems that have trips that can last over an hour, this is a much appreciated amenity. I know I appreciated them when I used BART. In general transit seems to be a user surly enterprise with operations like New Jersey Transit and Albany Transit lacking system timetables and system maps, most systems requiring exact change and lacking washroom facilities or the ease of exit and re-entry without paying a fare penalty if the need for a rest room is urgent. WMATA decided early on that the cost of maintenance and vandalism was to high a price to pay to provide public facilities. That is why the restrooms in stations are not directly accessible to the public. Later the policy on access was changed to give discretion to the station manager. We are now back to where we started because of security. Without the locked dooors, there's less of a security hazard. http://www.urinal.net/charing_cross_new/ http://www.urinal.net/charing_cross/ http://www.urinal.net/manila/ http://www.urinal.net/stadhouders_kade/ Well considering that WMATA metrorail station restrooms are in areas of the stations where they share access to station support facilities. Making the access point accessible through an unlocked door is not a very good way of maintaining security to the other areas. -- ================================================== ==================== Ever wanted one of these John R Cambron http://205.130.220.18/~cambronj/wmata/ or Hebron MD USA http://www.chesapeake.net/~cambronj/wmata/ ================================================== ==================== |
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