Q&A
Efforts to improve public access to bathroom location information
1:02:27
·
108 sec
Council Member Restler inquires about the administration's efforts to enhance public access to information about the locations of publicly accessible bathrooms.
- The city has publicized restroom map layers on Link NYC kiosks and taxi TVs
- They are open to partnerships to promote bathroom information, including with influencers
- The administration is pursuing integration with Google Maps for easier access
- A formal request has been made to Google to include bathroom locations directly on their maps
Lincoln Restler
1:02:27
And then the last question I wanna ask, and I think customer brewer has a couple of things for our chief public room officer as well is just about access to information around bathrooms.
1:02:37
You mentioned potentially engaging Google.
1:02:41
We've started putting up ads in, like, NYC hot kiosks Downtown Brooklyn, in our district, about where bathrooms are so that people know what else has the administration done to enhance access to New Yorkers about where publicly accessible bathrooms are located?
1:02:59
Yeah.
Ya-Ting Liu
1:03:00
Like yourself and borough president Levine, I think we have made the restroom map layer and the URL.
1:03:08
We publicize it on the Link NYC kiosks.
1:03:11
We did a run on the back of TLC on the taxi TVs.
1:03:17
We welcome ways to partner with pretty much anyone, really, including a bathroom influencer, Teddy Siegel from Got To Go NYC.
1:03:27
To help really promote and get that information available.
1:03:31
Back to this Google map, I think what I have learned from talking to colleagues and government that have created, you know, different types of maps like we are drowning in data and information, but at the end of the day, if it doesn't go to where users are actually using it, it's it's still quite a bit of a gap.
1:03:51
And so we think that, to be quite honest, the most effective way is if Google could just make it available when they you know, when anybody is opening up that map, and they could just see it.
1:04:01
That would be the North Star.
Lincoln Restler
1:04:02
And has a formal request been made to Google from the city of New York?
Ya-Ting Liu
1:04:06
Yes.
1:04:06
I've reached out to them to ask them to see if they might be able to help us in instead of doing a layer, which is an extra step to just make it available.
Lincoln Restler
1:04:14
Okay.
1:04:15
Thank you.
1:04:15
Katharine Brewer, do you have a couple of questions as well?
