The Icelandic Road and Coastal Authority has announced new public lavatories will be built at fifteen locations along Iceland's roads. The locations for these new public lavatories were chosen to ensure travellers would not need to travel too far between lavatories.
Adding public lavatories at popular tourist destinations has been identified as a priority. Many destinations which have grown in popularity in recent years can't handle the increase in the number of visitors due to the fact that they lack any visitor facilities, including public lavatories. The IRCA has already announced it will be adding more stopping places along the ring road to allow travellers to park their car safely to enjoy the view. Currently the Ring Road only has a handful of stopping places or roadside lavatories.
Read more: Farmer in S. Iceland fed up with disrespectful travellers treating his lawn as a public lavatory
According to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism all the new toilets will be built at sites which see large numbers of visitors, but are far from service stations or visitor centers with public lavatories. Most of the new toilets will therefore be added in sparsely populated regions, including four new roadside lavatories in the Westfjords.
Some have argued that the lack of accessible public roadside lavatories is one of the reasons some foreign travellers have taken to using public parks or people's lawns as public toilets.
The Icelandic Road and Coastal Authority has announced new public lavatories will be built at fifteen locations along Iceland's roads. The locations for these new public lavatories were chosen to ensure travellers would not need to travel too far between lavatories.
Adding public lavatories at popular tourist destinations has been identified as a priority. Many destinations which have grown in popularity in recent years can't handle the increase in the number of visitors due to the fact that they lack any visitor facilities, including public lavatories. The IRCA has already announced it will be adding more stopping places along the ring road to allow travellers to park their car safely to enjoy the view. Currently the Ring Road only has a handful of stopping places or roadside lavatories.
Read more: Farmer in S. Iceland fed up with disrespectful travellers treating his lawn as a public lavatory
According to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism all the new toilets will be built at sites which see large numbers of visitors, but are far from service stations or visitor centers with public lavatories. Most of the new toilets will therefore be added in sparsely populated regions, including four new roadside lavatories in the Westfjords.
Some have argued that the lack of accessible public roadside lavatories is one of the reasons some foreign travellers have taken to using public parks or people's lawns as public toilets.
