yeah the government used to pay for toilets to be maintained, funny how they don't seem to be able to do that now... too busy raising their own pay rates endlessly and demanding the government issue more debt to cover it, while we have to pay more taxes on the other side

happened all over the world... in bulgaria one of the solutions is private companies take over the toilets and they charge like 30 cents to use it, TP included at the counter, would be good if more countries would adopt this strategy... and they really need an attendant at these things, so they don't go for a day or more without service

here on madeira, there is a few public toilets in parks and you see the cleaners in them pretty regularly, yet ironically, at the one right next to the main town hall of this area i live in, is pretty awful and smelly and poorly maintained, but the ones in the tourist district are good

if they aren't gonna maintain them, they should sell them and let private individuals make it profitable enough to keep a person there to watch over them and clean up any messes that arise through the day... i'd happily pay to use a toilet that is actually really nice and clean, i think everyone would

but that shades into the other issue that these corrupt governments, especially local ones, are doing all kinds of things that result in escalating street crime and the junkies make a mess of the toilets because they are out of it and don't have any moral fibre