Men caught short as Chinese officials cut toilet queues for women during busy National Day holiday
Chinese officials came up with a seemingly foolproof plan to ease the perennial National Day holiday problem of women having to endure long queues when waiting to use toilets at mainland tourist attractions, mainland media reports.
They have switched the use of some of the men’s temporary toilets at Beijing’s Forbidden City, which always attracts huge crowds during the seven-day holiday, so that they are now only for use by women.
The Legal Evening News reports that the Palace Museum, which manages the Forbidden City, converted about a dozen portable toilets previously used by men, located outside the Meridian Gate, for the exclusive use by women visitors.
The change certainly helped to reduce the waiting time for women, who regularly have to queue up to use the toilet
A Palace Museum employee told the Legal Evening News that men would be relieved to learn that they would face long queues only during peak holiday times.