The case of the disappearing toilets

Having sat for some time on a bus journey, it is not unusual then to be looking for a public toilet. A new Government initiative entitled "Government toilet plans: All cisterns go" addresses itself to an issue of inevitable interest to older people who are bus travellers.

In an article in The Times 7th March 2008 entitled the Great British Inconvenience it is mentioned that "After a sharp decline in public toilets, from a high of 15,000 to 5,500 now, ministers announced a campaign to transform access and availability." "It is hoped that the initiative will end “bladder leash” – which leaves people tethered by how far they can travel, and for how long, because of the lack of toilets".

One of the problems encountered by those who travel to places they don't know well, is 'where the heck are the public toilets? Unfortunately we lack the kind of excellent resource that is available in Australia - a website with precise information on every available toilet in the land. (Clearly we aren't likely to take a laptop with us to enable a search to be made 'when we get there' but a careful traveler could check this out before setting off !) [A reader mentions that there is a Directory of Public Toilets in London ]

Do you have a view on this topic ? If so we would be pleased to hear of it. With your help maybe we could put together a Public Toilet Map to match the one available in Australia.