Sandy 4 St Albans

I have spent so many winter mornings standing outside St Albans City Station handing out leaflets to hurrying commuters that I ought to have a season ticket.

Today it was at least warm, the mornings are getting brighter, and I was there for the thoroughly worthy and non-political cause of promoting the Campaign for Better Transport’s push for lower rail fares.

The Campaign for Better Transport is the lobby group for improving public transport in the UK.  They used to be called Transport 2000 but they realised they should change the name when we entered the 21st century.  How different from Thameskink 2000.

I am pictured with local St Albans resident Stephen Joseph, who is director of CfBT.  I am glad to say that we received a very warm response in spite or perhaps because of wearing giant fake tickets round our necks.  We could have given away many more postcards than we actually had.  The cause should resonate with St Albans travellers since they pay more per kilometre than any equivalent commuter journey.

I am grateful to my Labour opponent and former council colleague Roma Mills, who joined us this morning, for taking the picture on my camera – I then took one of her!  Sadly Mrs Main was not present.

You can sign up to the campaign by visiting the CfBT website here.