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Portable urinal only units: when do they make sense?

Nina R.asked 0 viewsUnit Types & FeaturesUrinalUnits per person guidelineEvents and weddingsEvent planningCrowd management

I'm planning a two-day music festival with about 5,000 attendees per day, mostly men, and we're serving beer and food trucks. The ground is flat grass with good truck access. We'll have clusters of standard units and ADA-compliant units, but I remember from last year the lines for the women's side were brutal by afternoon. I'm thinking about adding some portable urinal-only units near the main stage bar area to speed up the men's side and free up the standard units for women. Has anyone tried this at a large event? Did it actually cut down wait times, or did it just create a new problem with men crowding around the urinals?

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Ashley M.Boise, ID

Urinal-only banks make sense at big male-heavy outdoor events with beer service, especially near bars and stages where the men's line used to choke the shared standard unit clusters.

At festivals I've worked, adding a few trough-style urinal banks next to the main stage bar pulled most of the quick men's traffic off the enclosed units. Women and families got shorter waits at the standard and ADA-compliant lines because fewer men were holding those stalls for a 30-second stop. You still need enough enclosed units for men who want privacy, and you still need the ADA-compliant count the venue and local rules require.

Crowding around the urinals is real if you park them in a dead-end pocket. Put them on an open approach with room to queue sideways, light them at night, and keep a clear path for the service truck. They do not replace your women's capacity or your ADA portable toilet count. They just raise throughput where the gender mix and alcohol push men's usage hard.

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