Post by @CathyTuttle@social.ridetrans.it

@CathyTuttle@social.ridetrans.it

2026-07-02 12:54 UTC

My 5 takeaways from Velo-City Rimini 2026 I’ve only been to four Velo-City conferences since my first in Vancouver, Canada in 2012. What I’ve seen over the past 14 years has been a major shift: from biking as an advocacy proposition to biking as an industry. 1. Bikes are transportation, not “Alternative Transportation” 2. Bike transportation needs real investments of money and space 3. It’s surprising which cities and countries are on-board ... Read more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qdsr2DyeN_QEclq1PZDGM2W6xgLRmk5klhQMrW6VhLY/edit?usp=sharing

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@ikecht@mas.to 2026-07-03 11:02

@CathyTuttle@social.ridetrans.it As a fellow Velocitizen that also started out in Vancouver I totally agree with your take-aways. What realy strikes me everytime I visit a Velocity (I've visited 6) is not the energy of the crowd, but the passion for cycling that radiates. And this has not changed, even though the cycling-world has changed a lot since Vancouver 2012. And what becomes clearer and clearer to me is that change is always starting with those people. And in the end most results are reached at city-level and not at a national level. Wether it is the drive to get to 30 km/h (led by cities like Brussels, Helsinki and Bologna), the drive to free up space for cycling (luckily too many cities to call out nowadays) or many other subjects. It are the cities that do the work, inspired by their advocacy-groups more often than not. I believe this is not especialy because of the reluctance of nations. But because the need for change is felt at city-level more then national. That and different speeds...

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