Like the sign above shows, kissing is now encouraged in the drop off parking lots or car parks, and politely discouraged - "No Kissing Here" - on the platform.

In essence, commuters have been told: if you want to do that PDA kind of business, do it in the car park.

I'm sure you see problem in this. By moving kissing to the car park, Virgin Rail is encouraging people to have sex in cars.

(Wait, what?)

As anyone with modest experience kissing in cars will tell you, passionate goodbyes in the front seat often lead to spontaneous sex in the back seat. That's been my experience anyway.

It's a great thing for the lovers involved in the act, but not the kind of thing you want to see en mass, in a parking lot, of train station, on the way to work.
(Unless you're an broke porn producer with a video camera.)

I want to enjoy my tea, crumpet and Daily Mail while I wait for the train. Not watch Gordon and Heather steaming up their Fiat.

By moving PDA to the car park instead of the platform, the Virgin Rail folks hope to ease congestion on their train platforms. And they will. They may just have lots more explicit activity in the car park. And created a possible epidemic of pepping Toms.

Now I think kissing on train platforms should be embraced.
A station in High Wycombe, northwest of London, has the right idea. Instead of banning PDA, It's urging commuters to get frisky.
"Kissing is welcome here! ... we would never dream of banning kissing," says a poster of a cartoon couple embracing, framed by a pink heart at that station.

That's more like it.

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