A new service promises Londoners they’ll never have to spend much time looking for the loo.
Westminster City Council, which covers London’s bustling Oxford Street, the West End, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, on Thursday launched “SatLav,” a toilet-finding service for cell phone users.
Tourists, theatergoers, shoppers and pub patrons in London’s West End can now text the word “toilet” — and receive a text back with the address of the nearest public facility.
The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways.
Companies such as Vindigo in the U.S. offers similar cell phone searches, but SatLav is being touted as the first text-based toilet-finder in Britain.
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Number of public toilets covered by the SatLav system
50 cents
Cost per “toilet” text
10,000
Gallons of urine that end up in Westminster streets each year
