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People are sharing online the codes that will give acess to toilets across London!

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stumbledin · 06/02/2020 19:52

We started the @LDNLooCodes account thinking of it as the simplest kind of direct action: distributing codes on social media (and eventually in print for those without smartphones) to help people in the capital access locked toilets. Our first tweet explained that we would be sharing the codes for loos in various cafes around London as we got them. But the idea – an evolution from personal lists of bathroom codes we kept in our notebooks during our studies – quickly spread further than we could have hoped.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/06/london-loo-codes-public-toilets

London loo codes collected to date: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NZc0IPV9SV_Wy9xoDckHbVDgJyeW2Str231Uz_e0Mg4/edit#gid=0

And location on hidden free loos also being shared twitter.com/ldnloocodes

(And cant see me walking round with a printout of the spreadsheet but I think it shows the level of unmet need judging by the response!)

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74NewStreet · 06/02/2020 22:11

Aren’t they locked for a reason? Confused. They’re not public conveniences, they’re for paying customers only?

ArranUpsideDown · 06/02/2020 22:07

Don't you get the code when you buy something?

That's sometimes known as the sandwich tax. It can add up if you need to pop in somewhere several times a day because there are no public facilities in a city.

winewolfhowls · 06/02/2020 21:29

I don't get it? Cafe toilets? Don't you get the code when you buy something? Seems fair enough to me?

Bezalelle · 06/02/2020 21:21

It's a lovely idea, but surely the codes will get changed pretty quickly.