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The best, bar none, engendered public restroom I've ever seen was less of a restroom and more of an area. It was basically just a hallway coming from a main area in the establishment. The hallway was lined with doors. Each was a "stall" that was just a closet with a toilet. Full hight doors for privacy. At the far end of the hall was a line of sinks to wash your hands afterwards.
Now, do I think this is perfect and cannot be improved? Hell no. It's pretty flawed, but I'll tell you that it's less flawed than what most buildings that are open to the public have.... Far less flawed. Gendered bathrooms are weird. IDK why people are so adamant about keeping them. I mean, I don't have a men's room and a ladies room at my house, do you?
I've never understood the privacy argument. There's a door for a reason so no one can see anyone in there anyway. Do women not want men watching them wash their hands? I don't get it.
I get it if they're your typical stall doors, those things are not great for privacy, but anything more robust than that, I would agree with you.
The only other qualm I can see would be resolved by ensuring that every stall has a garbage can.
Put a proper door on the stalls like they do in Europe. Seriously just make it a small room and yeah have a flip top bin or something in there.
Basically just Google European unisex bathroom and then do that.
Well yeah, but that was addressed in the comment I responded to :)
Yeah, they're great, I hadn't seen or heard about those before going to that Alamo. A hallway of stalls is a better phrase for describing it than I used. I did like that the alamo drafthouse had a room for urinals, so you don't end up with pee all over every street from missed aiming.
They could add a little dispenser of cleaner to the stalls, like they have at bucees. It's like a soap dispenser at the sink. You squirt it on some toilet paper and can use it to make sure the seat is clean before you sit down.