I would file this under "WHY THE HELL ARE THERE NOT PUBLIC WCs EVERYWHERE?!!!"

Are my taxes buying civilization or not? I really feel sorry for the ladies. Europe seems to have a handle on this. We can't seem to advance our culture. Pathetic.

That is hilarious. The breaks aren't long to smoke a cigarette and go to the bathroom and so some people are holding it and then complaining about health problems resulting from that.

(No offense to the average bus driver, most of them are really good, but some of them seem like they couldn't find their way out of a paper bag.)

We don't have public toilets because of a historic problem with drug use, and of course, puritan attitudes to piss in this country.

Randy Leonard is seeking to change all this with his loos.

Look, there are some places that have coin-operated, self cleaning robot bathrooms. We cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history when it comes to robot bathrooms.

I think puritanism is more the obstacle than drug use since the technology to mitigate the latter has existed for decades.

Puritans. England didn't want them and neither do I.

Tri-met drivers *pee in your mouth*. Really. You just didn't notice.

Why not give people free ride vouchers in exchange for holding a cup or empty water bottle to their bus driver's crotch region of needed?

Without robot bathrooms someone may steal our precious bodily fluids (Dr Strangelove, sorry...)
Agreed, I have always kind of wondered why we do not have more public restrooms... or honestly, why we have businesses all over town that are so insistent on non customers not using their restroom... there is one restaurant that I don't go in to because I was walking by one time and asked to use the restroom and they refused... never mind that I had probably been in the restaurant a dozen times before...
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Patrick

A bus driver thanks you for the article.

And the guy that says we should "pee in our mouth", thanks for illustrating so wonderfully the kind of moron's that we have to deal with in our daily lives.

And then people wonder why they get left behind at stops? Drivers can only take so many "pee in your mouth" idiots before they get mean to everyone.

There may be exceptions, but I don't think buses will fall behind schedule that much if an operator takes a pee break. That's what I'd do if I were behind the wheel - I'd pee when I needed to wherever there was a McDonald's or decent toilet near a stop. Usually the passengers are understanding about that sort of thing, especially if the driver lets them know what's going on.

Puritan attitudes to piss?

BTW-Not all schedules are written so badly that the operator has no time to relieve themselves.