Step on the love train: Prague Metro bosses plan to set aside carriages for singles looking for a soulmate



Plans to designate carriages on trains for single people looking for love

Public transport company is to start polling passengers to see if interested

The service could be up and running by the end of the year



Rail passengers looking for love in the Czech capital will soon be able to ditch the dating websites and match-making attempts by friends and simply take their commute to work instead.



Prague transport company Ropid is looking to designate carriers on its underground trains for singles seeking a soulmate.



The city-owned company, which is to start polling passengers to see if they would be interested, has said the service could be up and running by the end of the year.

Prague transport company Ropid is looking to designate carriers on its underground trains for singles looking for love

Spokesman Filip Drapal said the initiative was one of the activities the company hoped would lure people out of their cars and onto public transportation.



He said: 'We want to emphasize that public transport is not only a means of travel but that you can do things there that you cannot do in your car.'



Prague, with a population of 1.2 million, attracted 5.4 million foreign visitors in 2012 with a mix of centuries-old architecture and cobblestone streets and cheap Pilsner beer.

The city's three metro lines span more than 59 km and transported 580 million passengers in 2011.

The system features a total of 57 stations and operates from between 4am and 5am until midnight.



Ropid, the Regional Organiser of Prague Integrated Transport, started on December 1, 1993, to build up an integrated system of transport.

The company behind the plans hope it will lure people onto public transportation in the city

The objective of the organisation was to help create an alternative to people increasingly using their cars to travel about the city.

The metro is fastest transportation around the city and about 40 per cent of people use it as their choice of transport.

