India’s dream of Swach Bharat is being reciprocated in style by America as the bathroom stalls at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport made headlines as the first batch of updated restrooms at MSP are the 2016 winners in the 15th annual America’s Best Restroom Contest.
Hosted by Cintas, a Cincinnati-based company that cleans and provides supplies for public restrooms, this year’s best restroom contest asked the public to vote on a set of 10 finalists that pitted MSP’s lavs against the likes of a Doctor Who-themed Tardis bathroom at a bar in Brooklyn, N.Y., a bookstore in St. Louis where the bathrooms are papered in classic books, and the restrooms at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, Pa., (home of the AAA Lehigh Valley IronPigs) which feature a hands-free, motion-control urinal gaming system.
The restrooms MSP entered in the contest are part of a terminal-wide restroom renovation plan that started in 2009 and will continue through 2025 and encompasses more than 100 sets of public restrooms throughout the airport.
