| Brussels, May 6 – “Re-cycling cities” will be the official slogan of the Velo-city 2009 Brussels conference. This has been announced today by Pascal Smet, Brussels Minister for Mobility, and Manfred Neun, ECF President, during a press conference at Tour & Taxis, the location of Velo-city 2009.
Velo-city is the largest cycling planning conference series in the world since 1980. The overall objective of the 2009 conference, which will be organized from May 11-15, will be to integrate cycling as a means of transport and leisure in its own right. For the hosting town, Brussels, it will mean to work further on the development of high-standard cycling infrastructures. ECF would like to see cycling receiving greater attention in all transport-related policies and the establishment of “human powered mobility” on equal footing with “motorised” and “public” transport.
The exact programme of Velo-city 2009 will be developed within the next weeks and months. The major target group to visit the conference are city planners, decision-makers, industrials, scientists and users. The last Velo-city conference 2007 in Munich received around 950 participants from 50 countries worldwide. |
