More toilet cubicles wanted

I can't believe what happened at the 2019 annual conference for the Singapore branch of Toastmasters International, an all day affair with many guests in an auditorium.

At the morning breaktime, lunchtime and teatime everybody rushed to the toilets. One cubicle in the Ladies. Only one cubicle, a male friend confirmed, in the Gents.

This was in the Grassroots Community Club building beside the bus station beside the train station at Yio Chu Kang on the red line.

Station Toilets
Luckily I went to the public toilets between the train station and the bus station on my way.  They had three cubicles.

Upon taking possession of a cubicle, I discovered that the toilet paper was outside. (A big roll by the doorway.)

This was the area I had previously praised for the amusing cartoons of musicians on the tiles. Male musicians. I wonder whether the Gents also had male musicians, or female musicians.


Both the station toilet and the Grassroots club had the luxury of a shower head for washing your nether regions. But after you have washed down with water and feel clean it would be good to dry off again. Toilet paper please.

And more toilet cubicles.

One thing I am grateful for, that you find toilets outside very railway station in Singapore.

UK
In the UK the good news is that charges have been scrapped at toilets at stations in the UK.

When I was a child you could spend a penny to use a toilet cubicle. Of the six or twelve cubicles, one would be free. Usually not as clean as the other toilets. And if occupied, you had to wait. But at least everybody could use a toilet whether or not they had the right change.

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Disaster Signals

Problem
How do you find out about potential or ongoing disasters? How do you tell rescuers where you are?

Answers
Currently many beaches fly flags telling you when a beach is dangerous. I saw flags in Asia. They don't say what the flags mean. I thought they were just welcoming national or local flags. When I asked, I discovered that they were warnings that it was dangerous to swim.

In Bali I saw signs directing you which way to go in the event of high water.

Singapore
The train stations are well organised. Emergency action videos run constantly and there are posters everywhere about reporting suspicious object and how to get out of the train in an emergency. Signs in stations show the way out in an emergency and if an underground railway station is to be used as a refuge. Plus a handy list of alternative means of transport if for any reason trains and/or stations cannot be used.

All building sites have panels showing who to call in an emergency.

A new ap is being developed for disaster signals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-39948626#_=_

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. See my previous post about getting out of a building in an emergency. Please share links to useful and interesting posts.