Loos for whoever

Looks a bit apartheid to me!

Why? It's a loo for everyone and anyone. Just because some of the figures are black and some are white is only because the colours used for the sign are black and white. Don't be silly, seeing nastiness where it doesn't exist.

Actually blue, black and white.

I think that "seeing apartheid" in this sign shows a very negative way of seeing.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. When you've gotta go....

Well, living in France ...... ;-)

On a serious note, I'm delighted to see that wheelchair users are included as well. Brilliant. When out and about with mum, it was often the case that disability toilets were locked, which meant an exercise in finding out who had the key and where it was.

The pic. shows a bright, roomy space. Perfect for all.

Looks good to me! Just like the one at my house.

@ ffinochio, you've raised an interesting and important point. Why make disabled loos 'different' by keeping them locked? All of us, including the disabled people, use the one on the floor where I work. It's never been a problem. The one loo in our small Waitrose branch is also "multi-purpose", complete with baby changing shelf.

Maybe, Grannyknot it's because some disabled people have to have a carer with them, and they just take a longer time, which may cause queues.
I don't see the point keeping them locked though.

Sorry, I think they have separate disabled loos for the above reason.
Brain fog this morning!

All female loos have queues! It's the Spanx!

Since having my hip replaced I find 'normal' loos in service areas and shopping precincts are too low. If I can I use the disabled toilets but when these are locked then I can be in trouble. Can't get a disabled badge so can't gain access to the toilets. I have been known to have to crawl my way up the door or is that perhaps too much information? Our local cafe has an everyone toilet so that cafe is always our choice for a 'coffee stop'

Have you noticed how small some ordinary toilet cubicles have become? In several I have been in recently the inward opening door has nearly touched the loo itself. I am a comfortable size 14, and can just about manage but how anyone anyone larger copes in these loos I do not know.

Very badly Flickety very badly.

Bags chill out and don't be so touchy.....I was joking. You can google the term if you don't know it.

Humour by-pass

Anyone can get a Radar Key which opens the disabled loo. Just google Radar key.

Thanks for the info. Hunt.

My experiences with mum were quite some years ago, when councils were only just becoming enlightened about the needs of those with disability.

Sometimes disabled loos are locked because they can be used for other purposes.
I used to work in a highly respected dept store. After staff finding needles, many times, (in the baby changing room too!) and interrupting a couple having sex there was not much choice but to lock them. Even if they are, were checked regularly it was too risky to leave them unlocked. The key was kept at a checkout literally a couple of feet away.
This was in a quiet part of the UK and nearly fifteen years ago so how much of a problem it is now...?

Understand the frustration though as I'm now disabled and at times a wheelchair user.

Men have a habit of missing the toilet sometimes and getting it on the floor (hence the use of a urinal instead); not sure I'd like to use toilets with a sprinkle of tinkle around the base!

Shhhh !! Hunt if everyone gets a radar key the queues will be as long as the other facilities I'm not referring to those that need it.

I was once in a service area on M3 with mum who was a blue badge holder and had a radar key. One of mum's medical needs meant that when she needed the loo it was urgent. Because it was so busy, able-bodied people were holding the door open for the next person to use the disabled loo meaning mum and another lady were about 8th in a queue. When I said mum needed it. The person just about to enter (20ish glam) replied "we all have to go love" and disappeared inside.

I just wished the person who designed the Docklands Light Railway had included a few loos for GCs & Grandpas who need them at a moment's notice. A helpful woman told us where we could 'go' & it involved 2 long escalators & some stairs to get to the nearby bus station. Our final destination really needed them too - the new Boris project, the Emirates cable car over the Thames on the north side - for people with a nervous disposition before flying high.

Holly no men in your house then?

Grannyknot - not any more now and no splatters around the toilet - I don't have to keep saying to them 'get the mop and clean that mess up' either; bliss!