LOO LOO WPG - A PUBLIC TOILET PROPOSAL Winnipeg, MB
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Year: 2020, proposed
Location: Winnipeg
"We know washing hands is key to stopping the pandemic in its tracks. It's so obvious we need more safe, clean, monitored, year-round public toilets in our cities. Clean public toilets (with places to wash our hands) make all the difference between thriving healthy cities and declining unhealthy cities. But here's the challenge. We have this nexus of not enough public toilets, ice and snow, the Covid-19 pandemic and vulnerable populations. The opportunity — design a new kind of facility. And that's what the City of Winnipeg is working on, with capital costs being covered by the Canadian Medical Association Foundation. This is public health at its very basic, it's a no brainer. Everybody's ‘gotta go’ and everybody's gotta stay healthy" [Rae and Wins Bridgman 2020].
BridgmanCollaborative has been lobbying for public toilets in Winnipeg and across Canada for more than a decade. See A Public Calling - Making a Plea for the Urban Outhouse, Public Toilets, Accessibility and Human Rights: A Winnipeg Pop-Up Campaign and Human Dignity on Main Street: Public Toilets in Canada.
Location: Winnipeg
"We know washing hands is key to stopping the pandemic in its tracks. It's so obvious we need more safe, clean, monitored, year-round public toilets in our cities. Clean public toilets (with places to wash our hands) make all the difference between thriving healthy cities and declining unhealthy cities. But here's the challenge. We have this nexus of not enough public toilets, ice and snow, the Covid-19 pandemic and vulnerable populations. The opportunity — design a new kind of facility. And that's what the City of Winnipeg is working on, with capital costs being covered by the Canadian Medical Association Foundation. This is public health at its very basic, it's a no brainer. Everybody's ‘gotta go’ and everybody's gotta stay healthy" [Rae and Wins Bridgman 2020].
BridgmanCollaborative has been lobbying for public toilets in Winnipeg and across Canada for more than a decade. See A Public Calling - Making a Plea for the Urban Outhouse, Public Toilets, Accessibility and Human Rights: A Winnipeg Pop-Up Campaign and Human Dignity on Main Street: Public Toilets in Canada.