The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing has a web site that helps you find all the public toilets in the country. The site is so detailed as to even make it possible to plan a trip and identify the public toilets along the way in advance. Those crafty Australians.Now if we could only get them to drive on the right side of the road....
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I just read this article in the Sydney Paper it might be better to drive than to take the trains
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Watkins apologises to Sydney commuters
February 2, 2007 - 2:19PM
Desperate commuters on an inter-city train service out of Sydney have been offered an apology by the NSW transport minister for the lack of toilets on trains.
A number of passengers on the south coast service have suffered the humiliation of wetting themselves due to the lack of facilities on board, Fairfax reported.
The toilet-equipped cars previously used on the service have been removed for safety reasons.
They've been replaced with cars used on the Sydney network that don't have toilets while they are repaired.
Passengers have reportedly been forced to urinate in cars or wet themselves before the end of their trips of up to two hours.
Commuters needing to relieve themselves on these trips can contact a guard and the train will make an unscheduled stop at a station to allow passengers to use the toilet.
But many commuters are unaware of this option, and often there are too many people and not enough toilets at a station.
Some trains are reported to have left these toilet stops without passengers still waiting to go to the toilet.
Transport Minister John Watkins said it was a serious problem, admitting the time-consuming toilet stops were not a perfect solution.
"I apologise for the discomfort that passengers are having on that line," Mr Watkins told reporters.
"My commitment to them is to get these outer suburban cars (OSCARS) there with the toilets on the trains as soon as possible.
"In the interim we will continue the procedure to allow people to stop at stations to visit the toilet."
Mr Watkins said one set of cars with toilets out of the 15 taken out of service was back on line.
Others would come on line throughout the year and would also be put directly onto the south coast run to provide the required relief, he said.
It's the latest in a long series of problems for the government's rail service.
Opposition transport spokeswoman Gladys Berejiklian said the failure to bring the new OSCAR carriages into service two years ago was to blame for the lack of toilets on inter-city trains.
"The humiliation and embarrassment suffered by commuters who have been forced to wet themselves, or watch others do so, should be cause for John Watkins to hang his head in shame," Ms Berejiklian said in a statement.
"People's elderly parents should be allowed to travel on the rail network with dignity, but on John Watkins' rail network it's not possible."
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