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An unfortunate side-effect of laws designed to increase disabled access is that local government bodies are just selling off such facilities rather than pay for the required upgrades - most of these underground bathrooms were only accessible by stairs.

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One of my favorite (and most easily explained) unintended consequences of government actions. I call them "perfect or none" rules.

They get together and vote in rules they think will force things to be perfect, forgetting that it's entirely possible they will get none instead.

The "obvious" solution would have been to keep the underground facility and add one or two of those self-contained units for disabled folks between the two sets of stairs.

not possible either with cuts made by tory government

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