Happy to be disagreed with, but I'm getting the sense that there are two non-overlapping rivalrous qualities to gov-funded publicly-accessible restrooms: capacity and upkeep.
It seems obvious to me that restrooms are rivalrous in terms of capacity, though I agree with philh that it's weakly rivalrous. Either way, capacity feels less important re: "what's the cost-benefit on the government building and funding public restrooms?".
Even a single, clean stall available in an area would provide a huge QoL improvement for visitors to that area. Sure you can't satisfy all demand with a single self-cleaning stall, but you can satisfy (I predict) 30-50% of demand! That seems like a huge win.
Happy to be disagreed with, but I'm getting the sense that there are two non-overlapping rivalrous qualities to gov-funded publicly-accessible restrooms: capacity and upkeep.
It seems obvious to me that restrooms are rivalrous in terms of capacity, though I agree with philh that it's weakly rivalrous. Either way, capacity feels less important re: "what's the cost-benefit on the government building and funding public restrooms?".
Even a single, clean stall available in an area would provide a huge QoL improvement for visitors to that area. Sure you can't satisfy all demand with a single self-cleaning stall, but you can satisfy (I predict) 30-50% of demand! That seems like a huge win.
Upkeep seems like the actual... (read more)