With arrival of the rains, your time spent on Mumbai's roads, slowed by various infra projects, is bound to get longer, which means, if you feel the urge to go to the loo, when stuck in traffic, you might have to go through a lot of trouble

How often have you taken a long ride to work or back, and felt the sudden urge to empty your bladder but did not know where to go?

Or you found a public washroom but you could smell the stink a mile away and finally even if you made it into the loo, by the time you stepped out, your car had been towed away as there was no parking space outside.


Public toilet in Girgaum

Students of Journalism Mentor, a post graduate Mentorship based programme for entry level journalists, travelled by road, from Borivali to Churchgate and Thane to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST),to do a survey on the condition of public toilets at various places. The revelations were startling (see box).