Pay toilets were a good idea. Businesses such as stores got reimbursed partially for the maintenance. The 5 cent fee kept casual users out. Pay toilets should never have been banned. The immediate result was that there were no public toilets.
Years after they were banned, the effects of the bad law were felt - you couldn’t find a toilet while you were out. So another stupid law was passed - that business had to supply free toilets, at their own expense.
If they had just left the free market alone! The fee today would be 50 cents, and there would be public toilets wherever you needed them, and they would be maintained, and they would not be filthy hell holes with obscene graffiti and meeting places for all sorts of unnatural behavior.
Here I sit, broken-hearted
Paid my dime, and only farted