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Media release - 26.09.05

Bicycle Federation of Australia National Conference
Thursday 6th and Friday 7th October 2005
Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops 5th and 8th
October 2005

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The pre-and post-conference workshops will be:

Wednesday 5 October
. Cycle Tourism - Making it Work for You (The Australian
Centre for Excellence in Cycle Tourism)
. Best Buys for Walking (special rates for members of
PedBikeTrans)

Saturday 8 October
. Best Practice in Bicycle Facilities Design (Bicycle
Queensland & Connell Wagner)

Note: These workshops can be booked separately from the main conference.

Updated conference program now available

Registration for this conference is OPEN.  Register now.

Prestigious keynote speaker
Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, President of the Australian Medical Association, will address the Opening Plenary session of the conference. More.

Olympic Cyclists
Athens gold medallist Sara Carrigan and Stephen Hodge, six times Tour de France rider - will speak at the Conference dinner on "What all cyclists share."

International keynote speakers
Troels Andersen, Transportation Planner and Mobility Manager from Denmark. More.

John Pucher, a professor in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) More.

Sharon Roerty, AICP/PP has over 20 years as a professional planner concentrating on environmental, transportation and community issues. More.

Conference topics will include
. Innovative planning and best practice in engineering
to create healthy environments
. The health benefits of cycling and walking
. Government and community action to increase cycling
and walking

Who should attend?
. Politicians and Local Government Councillors
. Federal, State & Local Government officials
. Planners - land use, transport & traffic
. Medical practitioners & public health workers
. Academics
. Developers
. Road engineers
. Consultants
. Members of cycling groups
. Cyclists and anyone interested in cycling

Why you should attend
. You will take away strategies for getting effective projects
designed, funded, implemented and evaluated
. Find out how planning can impact on cycling and walking,
and what reforms are needed
. Gain information about why active transport is
so important
. You will make contact with experienced practitioners who
will share their stories of successes and failures (and why)
. To make people aware of your capabilities
. To deliver better cycling outcomes for your community
. To share the latest techniques for planning and providing
for cycling
. Help develop an action plan to create healthy, active
communities

Registration of Interest
If you would like us to send you further information about the conference please fill in your details on our Expression of interest page

Previous Conference
Connecting Cycling 2003, the last conference run by BFA, was a great success. A report on the 2003 Conference is available to download here [approximately 88kb].

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