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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

GET ON YOUR BIKE AND PEDAL FOR SCOTLAND
 
Briefing notice August 29 2001
 
WOMEN AND CYCLING

Friday July 20 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)

Background info

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

GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH BID FOR INTERNATIONAL CYCLING CONFERENCE - THROUGH TO LAST ROUND - IT'S A TWO-BIKE RACE


Embargoed until noon, Friday July 20 2001
 
Issued by the Velo-city 2001 media team, +44 (0)131 446 9265 or +44 (0)131 225 2082.
 
GLASGOW'S KILOMETRES BETTER FOR GERMAN CYCLISTS
 
MORE THAN 30 cyclists from the German city of Nuremberg will ride into Glasgow on Friday afternoon after completing a nine-day, 1,160 km journey from their home city.
 
Glasgow is one of Nuremberg's twin cities. Over the past two years, cycling ambassadors from Nuremberg have pedalled to their other twin cities of Nice, Prague and Krakow.
 
The Glasgow run has attracted most riders and is taking place as the city prepares to host, with Edinburgh, the world's biggest cycle planning conference in September. Velo-city 2001 will be attended by 500 delegates who consider issues such as cycle tourism, health and safer routes to schools.
 
The Nuremberg cyclists will be escorted for the last 50 kms of their journey by Scottish cyclists, including staff of Glasgow City Council. When the party arrives in George Square they will be greeted by Lord Provost Alex Mosson. The Lord Provost will then lay on a civic reception for the riders in the City Chambers.
 
The Lord Provost said: "These cycling ambassadors from Nuremberg are most welcome in Glasgow. The City Council is working hard to encourage cycling by creating cycle routes as well as co-hosting Velo-city 2001 in September.
 
"The cyclists have pedalled an extremely long way through Germany, Holland, England to get to Glasgow. I only hope their legs can stand the climb up the City Chambers' stairs to enjoy my reception."
 
Erl Wilkie, director of Velo-city 2001, added: "Velo-city 2001 is capturing the imaginations of people involved in town planning, civil engineering, tourism and cycle campaigning. It is therefore little surprise that Glasgow has been chosen as the destination for the Nuremberg cyclists. As it happens, a member of Nuremberg's department of economic affairs is speaking on cycle tourism at the conference, joining a speakers list that includes the ministers of transport from the Scottish Executive, the UK government and the governments of South Africa and Belgium."
 
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YOU ARE cordially invited to send a representative to meet the Nuremberg cyclists at George Square at 2pm, Friday 20 July.
 
Available for interview at George Square will be Erl Wilkie, director of Velo-city 2001 (telephone 0141-287 9039 mobile 07801 377 1818) plus London and Brussels-based Olly Hatch, director of the Velo-city series of conferences (telephone 0208 671 7561 (Thursday) or 07711 423655 (Friday))
 
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
 
The Velo-city 2001 conference themes are: Sustainable transport and planning; Children and mobility; Environment and land use; Tourism and economy; and, finally, Health and well-being.
 
Velo-city 2001 is being 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 cycle from one city to the other.
 
For delegate and speaker details, contact the Velo-city 2001 secretariat, c/o Meeting Makers Tel +44 (0)141 434 1500; fax +44 (0)141 434 1519; e-mail Velo_city@meetingmakers.co.uk; www.velo-city2001.org
 
For more information about Velo-city 2001, contact Erl Wilkie, conference director, on +44 (0)141 287 9039 (day only).
 
Visit www.velo-city2001.org for a background briefing for the media.

 

ENDS June 27 2001

CLOCK TICKING DOWN ON DISCOUNT DEAL FOR CYCLING CONFERENCE

Prospective delegates at the world's biggest cycle planning conference are being urged to sign up before it is too late, to take advantage of big discounts available to those who book early.

With a July 1 deadline (for reduced conference rates) only hours away, prospective delegates to Velo-city 2001 are being doubly encouraged to book now because of a limited offer of free rail tickets.

Velo-city 2001 is the latest in the 21-year old series of Velo-city conferences which has proven a magnet for national and local politicians, town planners, civil engineers and cycling campaigners and will, this year, prove especially popular among people working in health, tourism and education.

Visiting Scotland for the first time, the series takes place this year in Edinburgh and Glasgow in September, after having been staged last year in Amsterdam, Holland. At this year's conference, community-based issues such as car free housing development and children's mobility will be playing a big part in what has been hailed a cutting edge agenda.

Delegate registration is available on-line, at www.velo-city2001.org with a hard copy version available through the conference secretariat, telephone +44 (0)141 434 1500.

Following sponsorship from some of the UK's biggest rail companies, the first 200 delegates to sign up for Velo-city 2001 will be able to travel within the UK to the conference for free.

Velo-city 2001 takes place between September 17 and 21, with the middle day of the conference reserved for delegates to cycle between the two cities. Over 500 delegates are expected to attend. Thanks partly to a radical agenda that prioritises community issues, Velo-city 2001 is starting to re-write the record books. Over 300 abstracts for possible conference paper have been received from prospective speakers from 42 countries.

'I believe we are set fair for success,' said Olly Hatch, director of the Velo-city series of conferences. 'The organisers of this conference have set an agenda that moves the debates about cycling on. By choosing the conference themes they have, they have made this a Velo-city that will definitely be at the cutting edge.'

Added Velo-city 2001 director, Erl Wilkie: 'This conference is beginning to catch fire. Imaginations are being captured. Velo-city 2001's emphasis on issues such as health and children's issues has given this conference a cutting edge that everyone in cycle planning is desperate to be a part of.

No-one wants to miss Velo-city 2001. I'd like to think the Scots' famed hospitality is part of the reason. But there is no question the role of the conference agenda in pulling people in.'

The conference themes are: Health and well-being; Tourism and economy; Children and mobility; Environment and land use; and, finally, Sustainable transport and planning.

Notes to Editor:

Abstracts of papers have been received from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eire, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, USA, Wales and Zimbabwe.

Velo-city 2001 is being 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 cycle from one city to the other.

For delegate and speaker details, contact the Velo-city 2001 secretariat, c/o

Meeting Makers Tel +44 (0)141 434 1500; fax +44 (0)141 434 1519; e-mail

Velo_city@meetingmakers.co.uk; www.velo-city2001.org

For more information about Velo-city 2001, contact Erl Wilkie, conference director, on +44 (0)141 287 9039 (day only).

Visit www.velo-city2001.org for a background briefing for the media.

ENDS

June 12 2001. FAO newsdesk

FOR IMMEDIATE USE

RAIL AND BUS COMPANIES RALLY ROUND TO RELIEVE TIRED LEGS

CYCLISTS around the world making their way to a conference in Scotland are being saved the need to cycle the last legs of their journey following offers of free rail and bus travel from some of the country's biggest rail and bus companies.

Velo-city is the world's biggest cycle planning conference, which annually attracts over 500 delegates drawn from national and local government, town and transport planning, civil engineering, health, tourism and cycle campaign groups. It is taking place in Scotland for the first time and has attracted a variety of environmentally-friendly sponosrship packages.

For example, the first two hundred people to sign up as delegates will be offered free rail travel within the UK to the conference, which is being hosted jointly by Edinburgh and Glasgow in September.

In Scotland, delegates will be then entitled to free rail tickets as an alternative to cycling all or part of the way when the conference decamps from Edinburgh to resume business in Glasgow, forty miles away.

During their stay in Edinburgh, delegates will be able to travel for free on buses operated by Lothian Buses. Similarly, during their stay in Glasgow, delegates will enjoy free use of bus, rail and underground services within the Greater Glasgow area, thanks to Strathclyde Passenger Transport and bus companies Arriva, First Bus and Stagecoach.

The companies involved are Arriva, First Bus, GNER, Lothian Buses, Scotrail, Stagecoach, Strathclyde Passenger Transport and Virgin Trains.

The Velo-city 2001 version of the 21-year old series of Velo-city conferences has just issued its invitation to register to prospective delegates, with what has been hailed as a cutting-edge programme focussing on community-based issues such as car free housing development and children's mobility. Re-writing the record books, over 300 abstracts for possible conference papers have been received from prospective speakers from 42 countries.

The invitation to register has been launched on a dedicated web site, www.velo-city2001.org Hard copies are available through the conference secretariat, telephone +44 (0)141 434 1500.

Velo-city 2001 takes place between September 17 and 21, with the middle day of the conference reserved for delegates - should they wish - to cycle between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Said Velo-city 2001 director, Erl Wilkie: "This conference is beginning to catch fire. Imaginations are being captured. Velo-city 2001's emphasis on issues such as health and children's mobility has given this conference a cutting edge that everyone in cycle planning is desperate to be a part of. No-one wants to miss Velo-city 2001. Cycling, rail and bus share common visions about being environmentally-friendly transport, so it's great that some of the biggest names in rail and bus provision have teamed up with Velo-city 2001. With delegates signing up every day of the week, the race is definitely on for the free rail and bus passes."

Said Charlene Sloan, business manager for Virgin Trains in Scotland: "We welcome the opportunity to help promote environmentally-friendly transport - trains and bikes - in Scotland's principal cities. All our new trains will have spaces for bicycles and we look forward to welcoming many more passengers on board."

Douglas Ferguson, director of operations, at Strathclyde Passenger Transport, added: "Glasgow has an integrated public transport infrastructure to be proud of and we look forward to delegates being able to see it operate at first-hand."

The conference themes are: Health and well-being; Tourism and economy; Children and mobility; Environment and land use; and, finally, Sustainable transport and planning.

Notes to Editor:

Abstracts of papers have been received from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eire, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, USA, Wales and Zimbabwe.

Velo-city 2001 is being 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 cycle from one city to the other.

For delegate and speaker details, contact the Velo-city 2001 secretariat, c/o Meeting Makers Tel +44 (0)141 434 1500; fax +44 (0)141 434 1519; e-mail Velo_city@meetingmakers.co.uk; www.velo-city2001.org

For more information about Velo-city 2001, contact Erl Wilkie, conference director, on +44 (0)141 287 9039 (day only).

Visit www.velo-city2001.org for a background briefing for the media.

ENDS

 

 

 

April 23 2001 FAO Newsdesks

FOR IMMEDIATE USE

CYCLE LANES HELP WIN TOP AWARD

Issued by Mike Wilson of the Velo-city 2001 media team +44 (0)131 446 9265

With cycle lanes at their heart, re-designed streets surrounding a city rail station have just won top prize in the so-called "Oscars of Integrated Transport'. Re-vamped streets around Central rail station in Glasgow, with cyclists and pedestrians given as much priority as cars, came out tops in this year's Integrated Transport Awards, chaired by former transport minister, Steven Norris. The timing could hardly be better, with Glasgow this year co-hosting the world's biggest cycle planning conference, Velo-city, which is taking place in Scotland for the first time in its 21-year history. Velo-city 2001, which Glasgow is co-hosting with Edinburgh, expects to attract up to one thousand delegates from around the world, attracted by a cutting-edge agenda that looks at the likes of town planning, car free housing development, cycling and health and children's mobility. On the back of having just issued the conference Invitation to Register, Velo-city 2001 director, Erl Wilkie, said of the award: "Once again, the bike and ways of catering for the bike, is civilising our streets. I expect Velo-city 2001 delegates to be impressed by the way Scotland is starting to fall in love with the bike again." While awarding Glasgow its top prize, the judges said of the street redevelopment around the station: "This is an excellent example of the way in which both a city environment and public transport infrastructure can be vastly improved for the benefit of all, and recognises their significance in transforming Scotland's principal transport interchange."

Notes for Editors:

Velo-city 2001 is being 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 cycle from one city to the other.

For delegate and speaker details, contact the Velo-city 2001 secretariat, c/o Meeting Makers Tel +44 (0)141 434 1500; fax +44 (0)141 434 1519; e-mail Velo_city@meetingmakers.co.uk; www.velo-city2001.org

For more information about Velo-city 2001, contact Erl Wilkie, conference director, on +44 (0)141 287 9039 (day only).

Visit www.velo-city2001.org/bckbrief.htm for a background briefing for the media and details of the Invitation to Register.

ENDS

April 16 2001. FAO newsdesk

FOR IMMEDIATE USE

Issued by the Velo-city 2001 media team, +44 (0)131 446 9265 or +44 (0)131 225 2082.

COMMUNITY EXPERTS SIGNING UP FOR WORLD'S BIGGEST CYCLE PLANNING CONFERENCE

The link between community issues such as town planning and cycling is promising to attract a big audience to the world's biggest cycle planning conference, which has just published its invitation to register to prospective delegates.

The 21-year old series of Velo-city conferences takes place this year in the Scottish cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow in September, after having been staged in Amsterdam, Holland, last year. At Velo-city 2001, community issues will be playing a big part in what has been hailed a cutting agenda. For example, much of the conference considers sustainable transport and planning plus the likes of children's mobility and car-free housing.

The invitation to register has been launched on a dedicated web site, www.velo-city2001.org Hard copies are available through the conference secretariat, telephone +44 (0)141 434 1500.

Since its launch in 1980, the Velo-city series of cycling planning conferences has become an international focus for transport experts, town planners, politicians and cycle campaigners. But thanks partly to a radical agenda that prioritises community issues, Velo-city 2001 is starting to re-write the record books. Over 300 abstracts for possible conference paper have been received from prospective speakers from 42 countries.

This is the first time the Velo-city series has visited Scotland. It is taking place between September 17 and 21, with the middle day of the conference reserved for delegates to cycle between the two cities.

"I believe we are set fair for success,' said Olly Hatch, director of the Velo-city series of conferences. 'The organisers of this conference have set an agenda that moves the debates about cycling on. By choosing the conference themes they have, they have made this a Velo-city that will definitely be at the cutting edge."

Added Velo-city 2001 director, Erl Wilkie: "This conference is beginning to catch fire. Imaginations are being captured. Velo-city 2001's emphasis on the likes of health and children's issues has given this conference a cutting edge that everyone in cycle planning is desperate to be a part of. No-one wants to miss Velo-city 2001. I'd like to think the Scots' famed hospitality is part of the reason. But there is no question the role of the conference agenda in pulling people in."

The conference themes are: Health and well-being; Tourism and economy; Children and mobility; Environment and land use; and, finally, Sustainable transport and planning.

Notes to Editor:

Abstracts of papers have been received from the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eire, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, USA, Wales and Zimbabwe.

Velo-city 2001 is being 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 cycle from one city to the other.

For delegate and speaker details, contact the Velo-city 2001 secretariat, c/o Meeting Makers Tel +44 (0)141 434 1500; fax +44 (0)141 434 1519; e-mail Velo_city@meetingmakers.co.uk; www.velo-city2001.org

For more information about Velo-city 2001, contact Erl Wilkie, conference director, on +44 (0)141 287 9039 (day only).

Visit www.velo-city2001.org/bckbrief.htm for a background briefing for the media.

ENDS

 

Velo-city 2001 Media Team

Tim Dawson 0131 225 2082/07050 165653 tim@timdawsn. demon.co.uk

Mike Wilson 0131 446 9265/07050 169016 mwilsport@aol. com

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