Great Western Coffee Shop

Can you elucidate on the confirmed speakers please?

I will publish the list officially once I have it from Bryony

About this event

The TravelWatch SouthWest meetings are back. These sessions provide a unique opportunity for passengers and communities to engage with operators, policy makers, and local transport authorities together.

Remarkable things happen when you get the right mix of people in the room.

This meeting revolves around the need to create a vision and discussing the key questions:
How will connectivity patterns change in the future and what role will public transport play?
What support do places/communities need to grow and change?
What are the community priorities and how can we work together to support them?
Where is the funding going to come from and how can we deliver more with less?
How can we collaborate to meet our shared objectives?

Professor Graham Parkhurst (University of West of England and TWSW Director) is setting the socio/economic/environmental scene,

Nigel Blackler (Cornwall Council) will be inspiring the audience around unity of vision and delivering an outcome which improves journey experience quality across the region and supports communities.

Mark Hopwood, (Managing Director, GWR) considers the way in which rail operators can address passenger need in light of the emerging social, economic, and environmental themes.

Go South Coast examine the ways in which can adapt to meet the evolving scene and highlights the essentials steps to be taken now.

Further speakers are to be announced.

YOU'RE GOING TO
TWSW General Meeting: Your Vision for Getting Around by Public Transport

ORGANISER MESSAGE
Thank you for registering. Diversity and inclusion is very important. If we could make it easier for someone to attend, please let us know. This is a spacious venue and we encourage older members to bring younger people along.

DATE
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:30 - 15:45 BST

LOCATION
Taunton

Any initial reaction from TWSW seeing as though this is in strike week on the trains and, although not a strike day, likely to see early trains out of position & possibly disrupted?

No initial public reaction - with our secretariat

TWSW received a rather disappointing note from GWR which gives early warning that train services on Friday will be significantly affected by the strikes on the days either side with as little as 50% of trains running. This would make it difficult to arrange around train times and expose everyone to the chaos of disrupted journeys and over-crowding.  We have also been told that it is unlikely senior railway people will attend.. We must therefore postpone the general meeting until the Autumn.  This is with great regret (especially as attendances looked to be strong).