Prague wants to introduce carriages for single people on metro

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...nd-trains.html

The project's planners hope the single-only carriages will provide people with a rare opportunity to meet and form a relationship in an increasingly frantic world dominated by work.

"In the metro you can already read and learn, so why not find a partner?" said Filip Drapal, spokesman for Ropid, Prague's transport company. "We want to make life more pleasant. People today have no time to meet.

"We do not know yet whether the dating car will be the last carriage on each train and whether it will work day a week or one an hour," he added.

"We need to do some fine tuning."

Aneta Rehkova, spokeswoman for the metro system, said they were conducting surveys to find out what age groups would be interested in the special carriages and what times would be best to run them.
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Designed and built by the Czechoslovak communist government as a showpiece of socialist progress the Prague metro system remains the easiest and most efficient way to travel around the historic city.

With six-hundred million passengers using the underground each year proponents of the love carriages said there should be no shortage of single people willing to experiment with them.

But Ropid stressed that any couples or people already in a relationship who inadvertently stray into the singles' carriage will not be asked to leave.

So far the idea has met with a mixed response from the inhabitants of the Czech capital. An online survey by the newspaper Tyden found that 46 per cent approved while 46 per cent thought the idea was "absolute nonsense". A further 8 per cent had no opinion.

The idea of love carriages comes as part of a broader plan to get more people using the public transport network in a city where narrow and twisting roads make driving and parking vexing, if not impossible, tasks.

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At best: meaningless gimmick.
At worst: men-only zones.

[Ayla]

Oh wait I tottally got the wrong idea. Sounds like an interesting idea. Kinda seems like it will just end up being a normal car in the end

[deathlich]

all aboard the bangbus

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Incoming sausage party.

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I've heard silly stuff but this might just hit the top three straight away

[pagepro]

I dont see why not, they should just do it already.

[Deleted]

Interesting experiment, no further opinion.

-Edit- might boost tourism?

[lakhesis]

Does it have a bar?

I think the sheer novelty factor could get a few people in a first. Maybe it'd work, maybe it wouldn't, but it's an amusing concept & not like it's any more offensive than any other sort of dating service.

The world needs more madcap ideas, I hope they go ahead with it.

[Cybran]

"We do not know yet whether the dating car will be the last carriage on each train and whether it will work day a week or one an hour," he added.

The subway I use in the morning is so packed that there is nothing left to the imagination...

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Interesting experiment, no further opinion.

-Edit- might boost tourism?

Sure who wouldn't want an horde of swingers in town?

[koodledrum]

Agreed it has potential to be a sausage fest - it'd also be pretty creepy to me, but hey it's a different country with different attitudes, see if it sails there.

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Sure who wouldn't want an horde of swingers in town?

Old swingers? The age group that has the most money to spend?

[Masark]

At worst: men-only zones.

Which still isn't entirely useless. Single gay men exist too.

[serenka]

At best: meaningless gimmick.
At worst: men-only zones.

yeah i think it will end up being men only carts most of the time lol.

[Laize]

Imagine that... the government tries to help people with a program that costs pennies (if anything) and people deride it as useless before it even gets off the ground.

In the words of Michael Bluth... I don't know what I expected.

[Speaknoevil]

It's a good idea, it shows thoughtfulness.

Only allow half the car capacity to be a given gender, that way you don't have 19 men 1 woman or 20 men, or any other silly ratio.

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It's a good idea, it shows thoughtfulness.

Only allow half the car capacity to be a given gender, that way you don't have 19 men 1 woman or 20 men, or any other silly ratio.

10 men, 1 woman wouldn't be much different. :P

And who would be watching over it? "Sorry, no room for more guys - ladies are welcome!"

[Tackhisis]

Designed and built by the Czechoslovak communist government as a showpiece of socialist progress the Prague metro system...

Of course. How can there be an article without some banal antisovietic passage?

To implement this they will require to drop a normal wagon. What a wonderful idea.

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Old swingers? The age group that has the most money to spend?

I'd rather have less money around but possibly less twisted old fucks. You never know.

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It's a good idea, it shows thoughtfulness.

Only allow half the car capacity to be a given gender, that way you don't have 19 men 1 woman or 20 men, or any other silly ratio.

Although I'd appreciate the gesture, I really don't think a metro wagon is the right place for it. I mean... It sounds creepy as fuck really.

[Sierra85]

why would a woman ride it? the amount of sleazey guys in there, id be concerned for safety!