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By Hayley Robinson
Commuters will be asked to sign up for cheaper train
fares when a group of campaigners visits a Kent railway
station today.
Protesters will be wearing giant train tickets and handing out
campaign postcards to passengers as part of a campaign for better
transport.
Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate Gordon
Henderson will join the group after he pledged his support to
the campaign for a review of rail fares regulation in a bid to
bring down fares.
Mr Henderson is one of 11 politicians backing the move.
Protesters will take their campaign to Sittingbourne
station between 11.30am and 12.30pm, Rochester station from
4pm to 5pm and Gravesend station from 5.30pm to 6.30pm.
Cat Hobbs, the group's public transport campaigner, said:
"People in Kent have been hit by higher fare rises than anywhere
else.
"The Government allows Southeastern's
regulated fares to go up three per cent above inflation
every year.
"We're glad that many election candidates here are standing up
for passengers and saying that the Government must review
fares."
Monday, March 22 2010
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