Hey Baby, What’s Your (Metro) Line?

Transportation officials in Prague have suggested introducing singles cars on the Prague metro as a way to curb big city loneliness.

Atlantic Cities reports that the idea is to set aside one car per train for single people for a fixed period each week. Prague transit spokesman Filip Drápal told the Czech weekly Týden that, "People today have no place to meet ... Here they have the opportunity."

There are questions: Could people in relationships be accused of having a wandering eye by simply stepping onto the wrong car? Could riders choose the car accidentally and be put into an even more interesting situation?

As the Atlantic Cities notes, “What the plan touches on, nonetheless is the strange intensity many of us feel entering a packed train full of strangers we're not really supposed to acknowledge or engage. Nowhere else beyond a city’s transit system do we come into close proximity with such a volume of strangers.”

Do you like the idea of singles cars?