Provincial houses and other provincial offices must open their toilets to the public. So says the Toilet Alliance, which was set up four years ago by the Maag Lever Darm Foundation to combat the shortage of public toilets in our country.
Municipalities are increasingly also doing something about the shortage in-house, but they are used to receiving the public, for example through their service counters. According to the alliance, this applies much less to the provinces. But people in dire need could go to hundreds of extra toilets if the provinces made the sanitary facilities in their buildings and related services accessible to everyone.
High Emergency App
The Toilet Alliance also believes that more toilets should be made available to everyone at bus stations and transfer points, in nature and recreational areas and along cycling and walking routes. If necessary, agreements can be made with the catering industry, as municipalities already do. Cooperating catering companies will then receive a sticker on the door and can be listed in the High Emergency app, in which users can find where they can go to the toilet without immediately feeling obliged to order coffee. Stores can also cooperate.
According to the Toilet Alliance, the whole of the Netherlands only has 200 real public toilets and that compares very poorly with neighboring countries. Paris alone already has 750, according to the club.