>> Aside: the local gym has a "family" and wheelchair-accessible dottie. It has three giant changing rooms with lowered fixtures, wheelchair-okay doors, and enough room to park a frame or crutches. <<
\o/ That is awesome. Have you let them know? Or reviewed them or otherwise given encouragement?
One of the malls we visit has a big family bathroom. The arts center has only dotties down by its parking garage, although there are M/W rooms on the main floor.
>> They are the best actual thing and I don't understand why people are so attached to /not/ having them. <<
The only practical concern I have been able to identify is space. It does take more room to build 3 restrooms than 1 or 2, and to make any restroom fully accessible. In a large facility this is a negligible cost, but in a small one, it can be a serious concern.
However, that's only if you look at the square footage without considering usage. If you have M/W/U then the line flow is much better than just M/W, plus you've accommodated people with disabilities, seniors, parents of opposite-sex children, etc. If you make a separate facility for all those things, then you can make the M/F ones more compact. From there it's just facility-use algorithms, and people have already worked out enough of those that adapting them to calculate how many dotties you need per souls on board should be easy.
Most of the arguments over restroom design and use are based on pure prejudice. And even those fall through -- if you don't want to share a M/F restroom with someone who might be trans or intersex or whatever, then go in the damn dottie yourself! Nobody, even a bigot, should be at increased risk of health problems just because they're afraid to use the public toilet. 0_o
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Date: 2016-05-02 09:09 pm (UTC)\o/ That is awesome. Have you let them know? Or reviewed them or otherwise given encouragement?
One of the malls we visit has a big family bathroom. The arts center has only dotties down by its parking garage, although there are M/W rooms on the main floor.
>> They are the best actual thing and I don't understand why people are so attached to /not/ having them. <<
The only practical concern I have been able to identify is space. It does take more room to build 3 restrooms than 1 or 2, and to make any restroom fully accessible. In a large facility this is a negligible cost, but in a small one, it can be a serious concern.
However, that's only if you look at the square footage without considering usage. If you have M/W/U then the line flow is much better than just M/W, plus you've accommodated people with disabilities, seniors, parents of opposite-sex children, etc. If you make a separate facility for all those things, then you can make the M/F ones more compact. From there it's just facility-use algorithms, and people have already worked out enough of those that adapting them to calculate how many dotties you need per souls on board should be easy.
Most of the arguments over restroom design and use are based on pure prejudice. And even those fall through -- if you don't want to share a M/F restroom with someone who might be trans or intersex or whatever, then go in the damn dottie yourself! Nobody, even a bigot, should be at increased risk of health problems just because they're afraid to use the public toilet. 0_o