Maybe the documents attached below will aid people to understand what this is - a public meeting chaired by a retired Councillor (who is also an Alderman of Stockton Council and a regular user of Public Transport) with representatives of the major operators (Arriva and Stagecoach's Depot Managers are presently the regulars on that front - been nobody from Go North East for the last year or so and Leven Valley were surprisingly absent from the last meeting) plus Chester-le-Track and First Rail along with council officers from the Transport and Environment departments.

This is the 3rd such forum this year and it has been going for the last 4 or so years. The agenda is below - typically see a 30-45 minute presentation of what is going on in terms of service changes and infrastructure improvements designed to assist improvements to public transport. The rest of the meeting is a 'Question Time' format which sees members of the public able to ask questions of the operators and council officers about details related to public transport. Since the first meeting of 2013, this has been amended to enable people who cannot attend on the day but have previously attended to submit a question in writing before the day to gain an answer which they can then read in the minutes (the minutes for the July meeting are below).

Overall, it is a successful format and long may it continue - after all, the last meeting appears to have assisted the changes to Stagecoach's Stockton network from the following day