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Ironically, this kind of "cost-savings" is exactly what the Netherlands railways have been doing over the years (only by closing half the existing toilets). How
by onemorepassword 14y ago
Ironically, this kind of "cost-savings" is exactly what the Netherlands railways have been doing over the years (only by closing half the existing toilets). However, they ended up with the ultimate solution: ordering new trains without any toilets.
No joke, they even came up with the brilliant idea of handing out plastic bags for "emergencies"...
- pavel_lishin 14y agoI hope the plastic bags came pre-stamped, and with the railway's complaint department address printed on them.
- digitalengineer 14y agoCorrect! Here's an image of the so called 'Travel John' http://bit.ly/Vs9W2G http://bit.ly/Vs9W2G (Google Images). There is still a bit of a problem for the ladies or 'number 2'.
- jules 14y agoAs far as I remember from the news, each toilet in the NS trains costs more than €1 million, which is why they decided not to install any. Perhaps they should fix that number, instead of removing the toilets altogether. Note that a train toilet is nothing special, the waste disposal is just an open pipe to the bottom of the train.
- shasta 14y agoNow they spend €150 million a year on bags.
- onemorepassword 14y agoI would think they took into account cleaning (multiple times per day), maintenance, vandalism and loss of seating to come up with that number. Especially the latter, since this isn't the first time they've done something insane for a few extra seats. Putting the air intakes at the bottom of new trains (instead of on top as was the original manufacturers design) comes to mind, which lead to dozens of trains becoming unusable and needing weeks of repairs after a bit of snowfall...