Romance in the Metro. Photo by radialmonster.

Craigslist’s research team has devised a formula calculating the frequency of missed connections personal ads that reference particular transit stations in five of the country’s biggest metropolitan areas. Their finding: That WMATA’s Vienna/Fairfax station is the most frequently cited out of all 750 stations studied, on a connections-per-rider basis. That is to say, a larger percentage of riders at Vienna make a missed connections post on Craigslist than at any other station in any other city that was studied.

It seems likely to me that a lot of people who could be elsewhere on the Orange line are getting picked up as Vienna riders because they may have mentioned which direction they were heading. If that’s true this may be somewhat less than scientifically valid (there’s a shocker). Or maybe the platforms at Vienna are actually a meat market of super sexy singles looking to hook up.

It could happen, I guess.