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Bicycle Victoria will host the first annual Bike Futures conference this October. Bike Futures '09 is dedicated to the people who will transform our communities into bike-friendly, economically thriving and sustainable environments.This conference is the first in an annual series designed to assist national and local leaders, planners, designers and builders respond to the critical demands brought on by the explosion in growth of bike transportation and recreation across Australia.We all have a massive challenge ahead of us: more of our citizens are riding, and riding more often; riding in places and at times that were never envisaged; placing stresses and strains on physical infrastructure and political patience alike.Answers can be hard to come by in these resource-constrained times.Bike Futures '09 is the key to unlocking the solutions that government professionals and community leaders require at the local, state and national level.Over two days of intense sessions you and your colleagues will be exposed to the latest thinking on every major issue confronting communities moving to embrace the bicycle revolution.The conference is presented by the Bicycle Network across Australia, and hosted by Bicycle Victoria, Australia's leading bike organisation, and an international pathfinder in the development of policy, planning and activities promoting the growth of bike riding.Keynote speaker is Niels Tørsløv, Director of the Traffic Department at the City of Copenhagen, where he has guided the massive and unprecedented development of the bike transportation environment. Copenhagen will have 50 per cent of all trips by bike by 2020. Niels Tørsløv will show us how the Danish capital will get there.Hosted at the MCG function centre, just minutes from the CBD, the event will comprise keynote and themed sessions across key disciplines, site visits, and a Conference Dinner.The Conference is on Thursday 15 and Friday 16, October, in the middle of Melbourne's peak bike activity week which kicks off with Ride to Work Day on the Wednesday, takes in the Go Bike Expo, the finish of the Sun Tour on Saturday and concludes on Sunday with Around the Bay in a Day, the nation's largest mass participation ride event.Further details http://www.bv.com.au/change-the-world/43715/
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