Bathrooms!!!

My first post in 2010.
It's not on any grave and urgent social or political issue that should probably be addressed this year or atleast a resolution to the same (after which we can conveniently forget and go about our daily humdrum). Far from anything you would imagine, it's on washrooms (bathrooms, when I was in middle and high school) in public spaces - in a mall in my city to be specific.
Well, what would you list as prerequisites for functional and efficiently usable washrooms in large public spaces? A carpet area, first, that would meet the projected traffic flow? - Check. The division of the said area into cubicles and a wash area with basins? - Check. Installation of required fittings and hardware with plumbing and drainage? - Check. Lighting - Check. Flooring - uhh...shiny black tiles that mirror everything - not good at all. Especially if your cubicles stop a whole foot short of the floor. Not if you want to first draw customers to your swanky new mall only to make them go, "Oh dear Lord! I can see!"
It's so plain for the builders and developers to see as well - the shinier the glaze on the tile the clearer it reflects everything above it to the ceiling. If they can't be bothered to have sensible and 'common sense' flooring in washrooms, then it's just confirmed my opinion of their ilk. Irresponsible and greedy and foolish. Changing over to some other kind of flooring which didn't have those reflective qualities would, infact, have been cheaper for them. Increasing the length of the cubicles would do too.  I'm quite a regular at the mall but that's the one place I avoid like the plague!