{"id":679,"date":"2010-10-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2010\/10\/26\/vancouver-2012-the-bicycling-world-comes-knocking\/"},"modified":"2010-10-26T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T15:00:00","slug":"vancouver-2012-the-bicycling-world-comes-knocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/26\/vancouver-2012-the-bicycling-world-comes-knocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver 2012: The bicycling world comes knocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_iflVWcGyJL8\/TMIUkAKGiyI\/AAAAAAAAAT0\/04m5iMLqV7k\/s1600\/1721257-Vancouver_Skyline-Vancouver.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_iflVWcGyJL8\/TMIUkAKGiyI\/AAAAAAAAAT0\/04m5iMLqV7k\/s400\/1721257-Vancouver_Skyline-Vancouver.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It\u2019s not often that the world beats a path (practically) to your doorstep, and it\u2019s even more unusual when it arrives by bicycle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But that\u2019s what will happen in June 2012 when Velo-city, the world\u2019s largest conference of cycling planners and advocates, comes to Vancouver, B.C.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Velo-city, organized by the well-established <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecf.com\/\">European Cyclists\u2019 Federation (ECF)<\/a>, brings together urban planners, cycling advocates, government representatives, and politicians from around the world to share ideas and discuss strategies for getting more people on bicycles.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Velo-city began 30 years ago as a conference for European cycling advocates. The event went global for the first time this year. By all accounts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welcomehome.dk\/default.aspx?id=709\">2010 conference<\/a>, held in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.dk\/sitecore\/content\/Subsites\/CityOfCopenhagen\/SubsiteFrontpage\/LivingInCopenhagen\/CityAndTraffic.aspx\">Copenhagen<\/a>, was a smashing success, bringing together about 1,100 people from 60 countries. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_iflVWcGyJL8\/TMIWrX-ApMI\/AAAAAAAAAT4\/gQFHsvK36As\/s1600\/IMG_0283_bike_parking.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"258\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_iflVWcGyJL8\/TMIWrX-ApMI\/AAAAAAAAAT4\/gQFHsvK36As\/s400\/IMG_0283_bike_parking.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 2012 conference will be a golden opportunity for Northwest cycling advocates to mingle with, and learn from, their counterparts from other parts of the world. It\u2019ll also be an opportunity for local planners to learn about best practices elsewhere, and for local politicians to learn that cycling can play a valuable role in solving urban transportation problems.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">For more on the 2012 Vancouver Velo-city conference, see <a href=\"http:\/\/momentumplanet.com\/articles\/velo-city-global-coming-to-vancouver-in-2012\/index.html\">this article<\/a> in Momentum magazine\u2019s online edition.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that the world beats a path (practically) to your doorstep, and it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18,32,5,33,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-bike-culture","category-bike-events-wa","category-sustainable-living","category-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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