C-charge vote show starts on the trains

WHY commuters should vote . . . Cllr Davies and Cllr Sykes hand out leaflets at Mills Hill station today

It was full steam ahead today for the campaign to encourage people to vote in December’s congestion charge referendum.

At busy Mills Hill station, on the Chadderton-Middleton border, Oldham Council leader Councillor Howard Sykes and the deputy leader of Rochdale Council, Councillor Irene Davidson, herself a Manchester commuter, were on the platform telling people they believed a congestion charge would lead to more carriages and less overcrowding.

Commuters agreed that extra carriages would ease the cattle-truck conditions on rush-hour trains.