VeloCity; riparte la rete globale delle città per i ciclisti. 
(Lello Sforza - from Copenhagen)
Concluded the World Conference on Mobility cycling Appointment in Seville for the Velo-City 2011, Vancouver With a goodbye to the 2012 edition in Seville, where he will be held in March 2011, the next international conference Velo-City and Vancouver (Canada) for the world edition of 2012, ended the summit 'Global Mobility cycling held in the Danish capital June 22 to 25 on the initiative of the European Cyclists' Federation with the cities of Copenhagen and Frederisksberg.
actively participated in the Conference - including plenary sessions, forums, roundtables, meetings, "one to one" - politicians, planners, transported, philosophers, sociologists, planners, cicloecologisti, journalists from all continents who have also interacted their immersion in a global economy. Over one thousand participants. Italians were enough to count the fingers of both hands. These include even a public administrator, an elected representative or public institutions. It 'was a series of presentations of good practices and results of investigations e ricerche, scambi di idee ed esperienze ma anche di nuove attività imprenditoriali legate alla bicicletta. Come se in un momento particolare di grande crisi economico-finanziaria, il mondo della ciclabilità, dalla pianificazione ai servizi, non conosca crisi. Davvero un buon auspicio!
La parola d’ordine è stata: la bicicletta migliora la qualità delle città, è parte essenziale delle soluzioni alla lotta ai cambiamenti climatici e alla riduzione delle emissioni di CO2, induce a stili di vita sostenibili anche nel campo dei trasporti, riduce senza ombra di dubbio i consumi energetici. Perché “green economy” non può esistere senza “green mobility” e quest’ultima senza mobilità cycling. Which, integrated with public transport and community in its different combinations (train, tram, bus, car sharing, car pooling, taxis) promotes the development of an urban and metropolitan freed from dependence, and misuse of private .
And to say that Copenhagen, former queen of the bicycle, hosted the World Summit on the transport cycle, Thursday, June 24 over two thousand cyclists marched through the streets in a big "bike parade". Leading the procession of bikes ECF President Manfred Neun and the Mayor of the Municipal Administration of Technology and Environment in Copenhagen, Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard. The parade was particularly festive: located along the caravan of cyclists and carried on a number of risks, groups and bands have played and sung by attracting the attention of the citizens who liked to stop traffic. Determinants, then, in the procession of bikes, cargo bikes in Denmark, as in other northern European countries, are pervasive as a bike for transportation of all kinds: from shopping, children, people.
During the Conference has been raised by the President of the ECF, Mandred Neun, the network "Cities for Cyclists", the network of cities committed to promoting policies for cycling and sustainable transport. The initiative of the ECF, Initially launched in Europe in view of the vision "global" view of the bicycle as a means of urban transport of the future was re-launched an intercontinental level. The proposal was immediately welcomed by many public officials present at the conference, not only addressed to the cities, but at all levels of government. Welcome, then, the membership also by provinces, departments, counties, regions. The network "Cities for Cyclists", coordinated by the ECF - which has been confirmed as the first international organization for the promotion of cycling mobility - will facilitate contacts and relationships between all actors in the policy of cycling.
