Oh my! Let’s imagine you kick the door open and someone is standing on the other side. They might get a nose bleed and everyone woulb be exposed to communicable disease.
Good grief, when will the government quit micro-managing our lives! Oh yeah, never.
These must be some of those creeps who never flush the toilets (presumably to avoid touching anything).
But then the air from the bathroom would be sucked out, instead of the air from the outside being sucked in. This would expose the entire building to odors and bacteria from the bathroom, rather than containing it within the bathroom and having it processed through normal air filtration, not to mention the risk of the door opening on the face of someone passing by or getting ready to enter the bathroom.
No, this is fraught, extremely fraught. Leave well enough alone.
You know, all architects are idiots. They can’t figure things out based on local conditions or usage patterns. What they really need is a bunch of uneducated, ignorant politicians imposing a one-size-fits-all policy from hundreds of miles away.
Let’s make them out of clear glass and you can see if someone is coming or going...
We need less stupid laws, not more. It amy or may not be a good idea, we just don’t need another frickin law!
This is what you get when you have a Legislature in session all year.
Actually, this really *should* be standard practice.
Dang it. Now that I see it is Massachucetts, why wouldn’t they just put in doors that “swing both ways?”
“”[Think] how easy it would be to prevent germs and disease,” Flavin’s wife Tracy told BostonNow. “If state residents could open bathroom doors with a knee or elbow instead of a handle.”
A survey of cleanliness (germs) in public bathrooms showed that the CLEANEST place was the inside door handle/knob.
Jerry Seinfeld suggested that people be allowed to use rope swings to move in and out of the bathroom, so you can swing in, pee, and swing out without touching anything. Leave it to a germaphobe.
Doesn’t matter which way the doors open; use the paper towel you dry your hands with after washing them to open the door. If there’s a trash receptacle within reach, drop the towel in it as you exit. Otherwise carry it to the next trash can you see after leaving the restroom.
Why do people have to try to make things like this so difficult?
Funny story. My employer was testing all sorts of auto-gizmos for the bathroom, I guess to handle this whole “i don’t want to touch anything’ phobia.
So they had auto-doors, auto-flush toilets, even auto-dispensing paper towel holders.
But they still had manual faucets. I pointed out that the ONE place in the entire bathroom where there was a REAL chance to get germs was on the water faucets.
Because, it is a certainty that people will touch them with dirty hands, and then have to turn them off with CLEAN hands. Everything else COULD be touched by ONLY dirty hands or ONLY clean hands.
What is she talking about? Doors to get into the bathroom, stall doors, or what?
This is just “crap.”
The state will appropriate millions for a study to prove that people who use public bathrooms will now live longer.
Well I say ther must be “Two” doors! One that swings in to enter and one that swings out to exit! You can’t have one door that swings both ways ... Hmmmm ... well maybe that would require a “Third” restroom!
I'll STILL do it!.......