By Tate Papworth
Albion station will receive regular love and care following a lengthy community push.
The Albion Action Group has been granted permission to do regular rubbish pick-ups at the station following almost two years of lobbying.
Dinesh Jayasuriya, a regular user of the station, said community intervention was needed.
“I use Albion station and I started noticing rubbish grow and grow and grow. After a while I figured someone should do something about it because it’s our station,” he said.
“The best way to get people to stop littering is by showing people that it’s a community owned station – we care about it and keeping the area clean.”
Mr Jayasuriya then began what would become a nearly two-year process to allow the Albion Action Group to conduct regular rubbish pickups at the station.
“It took me a little while to work out how to go about it because there’s not a lot of information.
“Friends of Kororoit are doing Sunshine station, so I asked them what to do, but approval took about 15 months and we needed two MPs to get involved to help push us through.
I don’t know why that was the case, but the main thing is we got the community behind it and finally we’ve got here.”
Mr Jayasuriya said he plans for the cleanups to expand into other projects.
“Long term we’ll do more complicated things like plantings, lobbying for bins … there’s an extended list of things to do,” he said.
