Friday September 21 2001 Bikes a Possible Salvation for South African School Children, says Minister Thursday September 20 Levy on car advertising called for to promote cycling message 18 September 2001 CYCLING IS KEY TO ECONOMY, TOURISM AND ENVIRONMENT SAYS SALLY KEEBLE PHOTO OPPORTUNITY TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 2001 DELEGATES GET ON THEIR BIKES TO RIDE BETWEEN EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW 17 September 2001 BOYACK SHOWCASES SCOTLAND'S CYCLING ACHIEVEMENTS EMBARGO 00.01 Monday September 17 TRAINING SCHEME GEARS UP TO GET WOMEN ON BIKES September 10 2001 ARTIST GETS ON HIS BIKE TO MARK CYCLING CONFERENCE September 7 2001 ISSUED BY SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE BOYACK GEARS UP FOR VELO-CITY 2001 FRIDAY September 7 ISSUED BY VELO-CITY 2001 Royal High pupils show Minister plans to push bikes September 3 2001
GLASGOW'S KILOMETRES BETTER FOR GERMAN CYCLISTS June 27 2001 CLOCK TICKING DOWN ON DISCOUNT DEAL FOR CYCLING CONFERENCE June 12 2001. RAIL AND BUS COMPANIES RALLY ROUND TO RELIEVE TIRED LEGS April 23 2001 CYCLE LANES HELP WIN TOP AWARD April 16 2001 COMMUNITY EXPERTS SIGNING UP FOR WORLD'S BIGGEST CYCLE PLANNING CONFERENCE January 11 2001 HEALTH LEADS THE WAY IN WORLD'S BIGGEST CYCLE PLANNING CONFERENCE October 3 2000 TWO EDINBURGH SCHOOLS REACH FINAL OF COMPETITION TO MAKE CYCLING SAFER AND MORE FUN October 2 2000 TWO LANARKSHIRE SCHOOLS REACH FINAL OF COMPETITION TO MAKE CYCLING SAFER AND MORE FUN 26 September 2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT 26 September 2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON CHILDREN AND MOBILITY 26 September 2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENT AND LAND USE 26 September 2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON TOURISM AND ECONOMY 26 September 2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON HEALTH AND WELL BEING September 8 2000 THREE GLASGOW SCHOOLS REACH FINAL OF COMPETITION TO MAKE CYCLING SAFER AND MORE FUN Monday September 4 2000 SCOTTISH SCHOOLS TOLD: 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO RE-INVENT THE WHEEL' Thursday August 17 2000. MSPs GET ON THEIR BIKE FOR SCOTLAND'S CHILDREN Friday 21 July 2000 TOP SCOTS CYCLIST COMMITS TO PROMOTING BIKE USE AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN 24 May 2000 SCHOOLS SET CHALLENGE TO DREAM UP CYCLING PROJECTS 23 May 2000 PREVIEW OF THE FOUR SEATER 'FORMULA ONE' BIKE Sunday, May 14 2000 FOLLOWING TODAY'S BIKE SHED STORY IN SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY NEWSPAPER (PAGE NINE) 28 April 2000 BRITAIN'S MOST AMBITIOUS CYCLE-PLANNING CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED Sunday 20 June 1999 SCOTLAND TRIUMPH IN ESTONIA WHEN EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW WORK TOGETHER Tuesday June 15 1999 SCOTS RIDE INTO ESTONIA FOR CYCLISTS' DECISION 27 April 1999 CLOSING STAGE OF JUDGING FOR EDINBURGH/GLASGOW BID TO HOST INTERNATIONAL CYCLING CONFERENCE 7 March 1999
For immediate release 28 April 2000 FAO: newsdesks plus education, environment, planning and transport correspondents. BRITAIN'S MOST AMBITIOUS CYCLE-PLANNING CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED Plans for the most ambitious cycle planning event ever held in Britain were unveiled yesterday with a preliminary announcement about the programme of Velo-city 2001. Partnership to promote cycling is to be the theme of the conference, which is expected to attract more that 500 delegates from around the world and is to be he held in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Four particular areas of partnership will be covered: * Transport and education working together to promote safe cycle routes to schools; * North Sea countries collaborating on a 6,000 km cycle route, the North Sea Cycle Route; * Local authorities co-operating to promote cycling; * Practical examples of partnership, for example, that between land use and planning that is creating car-free residential areas in Edinburgh and increased cycle and pedestrian facilities in the centre of Glasgow. There will also be a substantial conference 'outreach' programme to enable the general public to become involved in the conference. For example, recreational cyclists are to be encouraged to join a charity cycle ride between the two cities at the start of the conference and Scottish school children will be presenting their plans to encourage cycling at a special, full conference session. Erl Wilkie, the Velo-city 2001 conference director, also launched the conference web-site (www.velo-city2001.org) and the first in a proposed series of conference newsletters. He said: "Velo-city is a unique meeting place for those of us who are involved in day-to-day cycle planning and members of the various cycle campaign groups who have done so much to initiate a lot of cycle promotion work. It also attracts delegates from all over the world, so it is unique melting pot of ideas. "That such a meeting is coming to Glasgow and Edinburgh at this time is particularly exciting as both major cities are in the middle of major cycle promotion exercises and, we have a new parliament whose executive has made a serious commitment to cycling." Notes for editors 1. The conference takes place between 17 and 21 September 2001 and will be held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre and the Moat House, Glasgow. 2. Further information is available from the Velo-city 2001 media team: Tim Dawson 0131 225 2082/07050 165653 and Mike Wilson 0131 446 9265/07050 169016. 3. For a background briefing on Velo-city 2001, including useful contact details and some story ideas, visit the web-site www.velo-city2001.org/background For other Velo-city 2001 material, visit the web-site www.velo-city2001.org Request to Editor 1. Please assist the Velo-city 2001 media team to archive media coverage of the event by contacting either Mike Wilson at mwilsport@aol.com or Tim Dawson at tim@timdawsn.demon.co.uk with details of the coverage you have given Velo-city 2001. 2. To have media releases tailored more closely to your needs, please contact the Velo-city 2001 media team with any relevant information including contact names and e-mail addresses. ENDS For immediate release Attention: Newsdesks, transport correspondents, environment correspondents. SCOTLAND TRIUMPH IN ESTONIA WHEN EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW WORK TOGETHER Edinburgh and Glasgow are celebrating the awarding of the world's premiere cycling conference, Velo-city. The unprecedented joint bid by the cities will bring the conference to Scotland in 2001 and follows a decision, announced today in Tartu, Estonia. Edinburgh and Glasgow's joint bid to host the Velo-city conference was launched in February of this year and has beaten off challenges from Dublin (Ireland), Gothenburg (Sweden) and, in the final round, Strasbourg (France). The final round of judging, by the European Cyclists' Federation, was completed today at a meeting in Estonia attended by representatives of the two cities. Velo-city 2001 will bring international politicians, planners and campaigners to a week-long event to discuss all aspects of cycle planning. The Edinburgh and Glasgow bid is the work of a consortium of the two cities' councils and local cycle campaign groups. It emphasised the two cities' advances in cycle promotion and their ambitious targets for increased cycle use. Velo-city will also be the first major transport conference held in Scotland since the formation of the Scottish Parliament and will come at a critical time in the evolution of transport policy in Scotland. Councillor Walter MacLellan, from the City of Glasgow Council, said: "This news is a tremendous boost for cycling in Scotland. Glasgow plans to triple the amount of cycle journeys taken in the city by the time of this conference as well as completing nearly a third of our planned 375 km of cycle track. I am looking forward to being able to show off these achievements under an international spotlight. I am sure that we will also be able to learn a lot from the hundreds of international delegates who will be here." Councillor Mark Lazarowicz, convenor of the transport committee at the City of Edinburgh Council, added: "By 2001, a lot of the cycle promotion initiatives that Edinburgh has launched, like the first car-free housing, the city car club and the re-allocation of road space in favour of cyclists, will be showing significant results. Iit will be a tremendous time to bring such an important conference to Scotland." The conference will be held in Edinburgh on 17 and 18 September , in Glasgow on 20 and 21 September 2001, with Wednesday 19 being set aside for participants to ride from one city to the other on a newly complete long-distance cycle route that will link them. For further information contact the Velo-city media team: Tim Dawson 0131 225 2082/07050 165653 or Mike Wilson 0131 446 9265/07050169016. A full media briefing pack is available, as is the full bid document. Please contact the media team for further information. ENDS
FAO Newsdesks Media Call - Media Call - Media Call - Media Call - Media Call SCOTS RIDE INTO ESTONIA FOR CYCLISTS' DECISION WHAT: Cyclist Ian Maxwell - armed with bicycle, map and guidebook - prepares for decision-day in Estonia. WHERE: At headquarters of One Parent Families Scotland, 13 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh. WHEN: Wednesday, June 16 1999, 3pm. BACKGROUND: A joint bid by Edinburgh and Glasgow to host the world's top cycling conference enters its final stage this weekend with bid representatives heading for Estonia where the venue decision is to be made. The Velo-city conference brings together politicians, transport planners and cycle campaign groups and the aim of the Edinburgh-Glasgow bid is to stage the conference scheduled for the year 2001. Having already seen off competition from Ireland and Norway, the bid goes head to head with one from Strasbourg in France. The decision will be made by the European Cyclists' Federation at its Annual General Meeting being held in Estonia. It is expected the decision will be made public on Sunday, around noon. For more details: Ian Maxwell, 0131-556 3899. A full media pack - containing story ideas, cycling facts 'n' figures and contact names and telephone numbers - is available by contacting Mike Wilson on 0131-446 9265 or Tim Dawson on 0131-225 2082. ENDS.
27 April 1999 For immediate use Attention: newsdesks, environment correspondents, transport correspondents. CLOSING STAGE OF JUDGING FOR EDINBURGH/GLASGOW BID TO HOST INTERNATIONAL CYCLING CONFERENCE The director of a prestigious international cycling conference is in Scotland TODAY to evaluate a bid by Edinburgh and Glasgow to host the event. The Velo-city conference - which brings together politicians, transport planners and cycling activists - will be held in the two Scottish cities in September 2001 if their bid is selected. Oliver Hatch, director of the Velo-city conference, is meeting with representatives of the joint Edinburgh/Glasgow bid team and inspecting facilities. He will also be available for media interviews at 11 am TODAY, Tuesday 27 April, in the foyer of the new wing of the National Museum of Scotland, in Chambers Street, Edinburgh. He will also be available for telephone interviews later in the day. Please contact the media team for more details. The Edinburgh/Glasgow bid is competing with one from with Strasbourg (France). Bids from Dublin (Ireland) and Gothenburg (Sweden) failed to make the final short list. The winner will be announced in June this year. ----- Contacts Oliver Hatch, Velo-city conference director 0411 423655. Erl Wilkie (with Oliver Hatch today) City of Glasgow Cycling Officer, 0780 1377181. Ian Maxwell, Velo-city spokesman on 0131 556 3899 (day), or 0131 669 6542 (eves). Velo-city media team: Tim Dawson 0131 225 2082/07050 165653, Mike Wilson 0131 446 9265/07050 169016. A full media briefing pack, and previous media releases, are available, as is the full bid document. Please contact the media team for further information. ENDS
Tuesday 23 March 1999; for immediate release Attention: newsdesks PEDAL FOR SCOTLAND IS A BOOST FOR Velo-city BID Pedal for Scotland, the mass charity ride launched today, is a huge boost to Edinburgh and Glasgow's bid to host the prestigious Velo-city event in 2001. The initial Pedal for Scotland events will be stand-alone events. Then in 2001 the mass ride will form the public centrepiece of Velo-city, if the Scottish cities are successful in their bid. Velo-city is the world's premier cycle planning conference. It brings together politicians, transport professionals and cycle campaign groups to discuss the promotion of cycling as a means of transport. Since its inception 19 years ago, the event has visited ten different cities and now attracts over 500 participants to the bi-annual gatherings. Edinburgh and Glasgow's bid had has already made it on to the final short list of two. Dublin (Ireland) and Gothenburg (Sweden) are eliminated: the joint Scottish bid is now head to head with one from Strasbourg (France). Ian Maxwell, the Velo-city bid spokesman said: "A mass charity ride that unites Central Scotland is fantastic news for Edinburgh and Glasgow's bid to host Velo-city. The bid team has worked closely with the organisers of Pedal for Scotland to ensure that by the time Velo- city comes to Scotland we will have a really big mass cycling centrepiece that allows anyone who owns a bike to get involved. It will be a massive boost for the profile of cycling in Scotland if we can pull that off." For further information please contact: Ian Maxwell, Velo-city spokesperson on 0131 556 3899 (day time) or 0131 669 6542 (evenings). Velo-city media team: Tim Dawson: 0131 225 2082/07050 165 653; Mike Wilson 0131 446 9265/07050 169016. ENDS Notes for editors: The bid to bring Velo-city 2001 is being mounted by Edinburgh City Council, the city of Glasgow Council, the CTC, the Scottish Cycling Development Project, Spokes, Go-Bike! and, Sustrans Scotland. Bids will be judged by the European Cyclists' Federation which will announce its decision in June this year. The Edinburgh/Glasgow bid is to hold the conference in Edinburgh on 17 and 18 September 2001, in Glasgow on 20 and 21 September 2001 with Wednesday19 September for participants to ride from one city to the other on the newly complete long-distance cycle route that will link the cities.
For immediate release Attention: Newsdesk. By fax (phone Mike Wilson on 0131-446 9265 if you would prefer it to be e-mailed). GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH BID FOR INTERNATIONAL CYCLING CONFERENCE - THROUGH TO LAST ROUND - IT'S A TWO-BIKE RACE An international cycling conference took a significant step closer to being hosted in Scotland with the announcement last night (Saturday March 6) that a joint bid from Edinburgh and Glasgow had made it on to the final short list of two. With Dublin (Ireland) and Gothenburg (Sweden) out of the running, the joint Scottish bid now goes head to head with one from Strasbourg (France). Velo City - widely recognised as the world's premier cycle planning conference - brings together politicians, transport professionals and cycle campaign groups to discuss the promotion of cycling. Since its inception in 1980, the event has visited 10 different cities and now attracts over 500 participants to the bi-annual gatherings. Edinburgh and Glasgow are bidding for the conference because of: - the significant advances both cities have made in cycle promotion; - the ambitious targets both cities have to increase cycle use; - the conference having never been held in Scotland; - Velo City potentially being the first international transport event after devolution; - the developments in national cycling policy arising from current White Papers on transport; - and, Scotland being the home of the bicycle - Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Dumfriesshire blacksmith built the first recognisable bicycle in 1839. Councillor Walter MacLellan, convenor of roads and transportation for the City of Glasgow Council said: 'It is tremendous news that we are though to the next round. Hosting the conference will be a real boost for cycling in Scotland. Glasgow plans to triple the amount of cycle journeys taken within the city by the time of this conference and we will have built nearly a third of the 375 km of cycle track we are planning. Velo City would give us an international stage to showcase these achievements.' Councillor David Begg, convenor of the transport committee at the City of Edinburgh Council added: 'By 2001 Edinburgh will have established its first car-free housing, the city car club will be operational and the re-allocation of road space in favour of cycles and busses will be showing significant results - it is very encouraging to have beaten such tough competition because it would be a tremendous time to bring such an important conference to the two cities.' The bid will be judged by the European Cyclists' Federation which will announce its decision during June this year. The Edinburgh/Glasgow bid is to hold the conference in Edinburgh on 17 and 18 September 2001, in Glasgow on 20 and 21 September 2001 - with Wednesday for participants to ride from one city to the other on the newly complete long distance cycle route that will link them. ---- Walter MacLellan and David Begg are available for interview today (Sunday 7 March). Please phone the media team for contact details if you do not have them. For further information contact: Ian Maxwell, Velo City spokesman on 0131 556 3899 (day time), or 0131 669 6542 (evenings and weekend). Velo City media team: Tim Dawson 0131 225 2082/07050 165653, Mike Wilson 0131 446 9265/07050 169016. A full media briefing pack - containing background information, story ideas and contact names and telephone numbers - is available, as is the full bid document. ENDS |
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