Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lotsnof easrer European countries have public bathrooms. There's a charge and an attendant. Those bathrooms are clean.
It's always money and accountability. Not enough spent on janitorial services and what spent is not accounted for. And f course personal responsibility. I have a toddler and certain playgrounds always have juice boxes and ice cream wrapper trash. And this is a place where people with kids come. Ack to. I always pick up the trash but it's always there and then I get side eye from other parents for doing it. Either I pick it up or my toddler will play with the trash.
Personal responsibility is a stronger influence in more homogenous societies like japan
I am a big "broken windows theory" subscriber. If there is urine toilet paper on the ground I am going to get in and out of the toilet as quickly as possibly not touching anything and holding my nose. If the bathroom is clean and I drop some toilet paper I will pick it up and put it in the trash as I am not totally disgusted to be there in the first place. Same with littered streets and gum ridden sidewalks (DC has many that look like tar pits). DC KNOWS it has high volume tourist areas. DC also KNOWS we have high volume homeless, teen or children areas. DC could target more janitorial and pooled (sidewalk gum cleaning machines) services to these areas.
Regarding bathrooms, there is no excuse for travelers to experience the misery that is Union Station and some of our sight seeing locales. We pay such high taxes. Use them to pay an attendants to clean. There is a midwest US airport I recently read about (can't remember which) where they literally have given the attendants smart watches that tell them how many visitors the stall has had, so they can be 'smart responsive' and efficient with cleanings. As for restaurants, inspect and hold them accountable.
Many high volume areas world-wide have figured out how to be both hospitable and sanitary. DC being so 3rd world is pure laziness and waste on the part of our city managers.
Touch free doors and other amenities:
https://www.trsa.org/news/americas-best-restroom-minneapolis-st-paul-airport
Notice Most of the Worst Airports are snobby East Coast:
http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/americas-best-and-worst-airports#11
Notice these people have figured out how to keep high volume restrooms clean
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/14/heres-what-it-takes-to-design-the-worlds-best-airport.html
"1) Real-time data
Changi receives more than 1.8 million clicks of feedback each month from passengers, ranking everything from restrooms to customer service agents, and even the gardens.
Some of the data are actually used to help inform real-time business operations. For example, passengers leaving the restroom have the choice between ranking the facilities between excellent, good, average, fair, or poor.
The operational staff monitors that data and deploys cleaning staff to any location that isn't rated highly."
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