Shitting On The Go

New York is set to install pay-per-piss toilets. Yum-o. The article notes the chronic shortages of public restrooms throughout the city. We have a better solution: legislate that people cannot be denied admittance to privately owned public restrooms. That is to say, make those "Restroom For Customer Only" signs go away. Sure, the au Bon Pain in Union Square has a longer line to use a restroom than there is a line for people buying tasty pastries, but if every establishment with a public restroom -- and that includes ALL sit down restaurants -- no single place would have a line, no one place would be inundated with shit from three million tourists.