Pay toilets began to disappear in the 1970s. | globalmoments/iStock via Getty Images. The foursome drafted model legislation and circulated press releases drawing attention to the issue, ...

Re installing 150 pay toilets in Los Angeles: If public restroom facilities are a magnet for crime, what better way to know where the criminals are so they can be apprehended?

Pay toilets created a system of haves and have nots when it came to bathroom access. So in the 60s, movements sprung up to ban pay toilets. Problem is: when the pay toilets went away, ...

The city isn’t exactly getting flush with cash, but its first automated pay toilet has seen a steady stream of customers since opening Thursday. To date, 374 people have plopped in a quarter … ...

Could pay toilets help San Diego cope with downtown's homelessness crisis? City officials lobbying state to lift pay toilet ban, contend revenue could cover cost for many safe, clean restrooms.

SAN DIEGO — San Diego city leaders want the state to lift a nearly 50-year-old ban on pay toilets, which they say could solve a shortage of clean and safe downtown restrooms that repels tourists ...

Pay toilets were seen as a way to recoup costs of operation and encourage people to keep them clean. But by the '70s, pay toilets were falling out of favor. Toilet equity was one issue.

While high-tech toilets are common in Europe — one manufacturer operates more than 3,000 in 550 cities — they are relatively new to the United States.

NEW YORKERS could be in for a double dose of relief under a proposed deal announced yesterday - 20 public pay toilets for city streets and $1 billion for city coffers. The city announced yesterday ...

Pay Toilets On Airplanes? February 27, 2009 / 12:27 PM EST / AP Is a bathroom an optional extra when you're at 30,000 feet? Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary seems to think so - as his no-frills ...