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A LEADING comedy actor and writer, Michael Palin, has become chair of Transport 2000, the environmental and pro-public transport pressure group.
Palin, best known as a member of the television Monty Python teani between 1969 and 1974, succeeds a London architect, Harley Sherlock. Sherlock is leading member of the Royal
histitute of British Architects and has been Transport 2000 chair since 1981.
A statement from Transport 2000 says that Palin first become interested in transport at the age of two when he travelled on a bus in Sheffield. More recently, he appeared in one of the BBC Great Train Journeys cy rite World series in 1980.
"I've always seen the good sense in an efficient well-r public transport system, bu have never understood w in practice we so often f short of our potential," said.
"Transport 2000 is de( cased to improving standar for everyone who trave pedestrians as well motorists, canal users a: commuters. I'm very hap to add my voice to theirs."'